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How many schools did the Tanganyikan laughter epidemic eventually close in 1962?
The outbreak began at the Kashasha Mission Girls' School in January 1962 with three students. It spread to nearby villages and onwards through 14 schools over the course of the year, with approximately 1,000 affected individuals. The standard modern diagnosis is mass psychogenic illness. The episode is one of the best-documented modern examples of the phenomenon.
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The Laughter That Closed Fourteen Schools In January 1962 three students at a Tanganyikan girls' school began to laugh and could not stop. By the end of the year a thousand others had joined them.
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