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- 1983_West_Bank_fainting_epidemic abstract "The 1983 West Bank fainting epidemic occurred in late March and early April 1983. Researchers point to mass hysteria as the most likely explanation. Fainting and dizziness were complained of by large numbers of Palestinian teenage girls, most schoolgirls, and a smaller number of female Israeli soldiers in multiple West Bank towns, leading to 943 hospitalizations.Before the cause was determined to be psychological in April 1983, the fainting spells led to accusations and counter-accusations between Israelis and Palestinians. Israel even arrested some Palestinians during the outbreak, alleging that political agitation was behind the phenomenon. The New York Times reported that \"Palestinian leaders have accused Israeli settlers and officials of using 'chemical warfare' in West Bank schools to drive Arabs out of the area\" and that some Israeli officials \"accused radical Palestinian factions of using gas or chemicals to incite demonstrations.\"Investigators concluded that even if some \"environmental irritant\" had originally been present, the wave of complaints was ultimately a product of mass hysteria. This conclusion was supported by a Palestinian health official, who said that while 20% of the early cases may have been caused by the inhalation of some kind of gas, the remaining 80% were psychosomatic.Albert Hefez, the lead Israeli psychiatric investigator into the incident, found that the Israeli press and Palestinian medical community both fueled the mass hysteria. He said the Israeli press, by speculating that \"poison\" was behind the incidents in its early reporting and quoting unnamed Israeli army officials as saying nerve gas was being used by Palestinian militants to provoke an uprising, spread panic. He found the Arab medical community, in turn, decided that the \"poison\" must be coming from the Israeli side. “In the Jordanian West Bank epidemic, both the Israeli press and the Arab medical community, entrapped in their existing sociopolitical conflicts, expressed their viewpoints and feelings in their own particular way and, by doing so, gave momentum to the course of events.\"Baruch Modan, then director general of Israel's health ministry, also concluded that most of the victims of the epidemic suffered from a psychological malady, though he said some who fell ill after April 3, when epidemiologists say the outbreak had subsided, were faking. Albert Hefez, Israel’s lead psychiatric investigator of the incident, wrote in his 1985 study “The Role of the Press and the Medical Community in the epidemic of ‘Mysterious Gas Poisoning’ in the Jordan West Bank” that Israeli newspaper reports of “poisoning” at the start of the epidemic added fuel to the flames. A front page article in Haaretz on March 28, 1983 even claimed that Israeli military investigators had found traces of nerve gas and quoted “army sources” as saying they suspected Palestinian militants were poisoning their own people in order to blame Israel and provoke an uprising. Palestinian leaders followed up with accusations that Israel had poisoned them in an attempt to drive them from the West Bank.Such epidemic hysteria has a long history: notable cases are the Salem witch trials, which arose according to some historians from hysteria among girls, to the Tanganyika laughter epidemic of 1962 and the 2008-2012 outbreak of psychogenic illness over suspected Taliban poisoning by Afghan schoolgirls.".
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- 1983_West_Bank_fainting_epidemic comment "The 1983 West Bank fainting epidemic occurred in late March and early April 1983. Researchers point to mass hysteria as the most likely explanation.".
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