Bangladesh Health Adviser Matiur Rahman Thursday said the mysterious illness that struck hundreds of students in the country is mass hysteria disease and it's not serious with no risk of death.
"It is totally a temporary psychiatric problem, not a serious physical disease. There is no risk of death by this disease," he said at a press briefing, private news agency UNB reported.
The adviser said there is no reason to get panicked about the recently seen mass hysteria disease among children across the country.
There have been over 270 high school students of different parts in Bangladesh affected by mass hysteria since July 14.
Terming the "mass hysteria" or "mass psychogenic" illness a sort of psychiatric problem, he said the syndromes of this disease are seen among specific groups of children or people. The disease spreads quickly from one person to another.
"Through examining the history and universal experiment of this disease, no specific physical complication has been identified," he added.
The adviser said the patients, who suffer from acute mental stress and some physical nervous syndromes, are often called " conversion disorder" or hysteria. "Hysteria is generally found more among the adolescent girls," he said.
This disease could originate from normal environmental situation, especially from smell, fear of infection and rumors. " Sometimes, it can spread among the same group of people if an important person of that group falls sick," he said.
He pointed out that the disease firstly affects the children having low stress tolerance in their personal and social life.
It is essential to segregate one victim of such disease from another and to provide them with nutritious food. "The intensity of this disease subsides gradually when the affected person is removed from past environment," he added.
Source: Xinhua
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