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A crazy (or maybe not so much) theory: Bacteria. Some bacteria could cause sleep disorders (e.g. Tropheryma whipplei [1]) and this place could be favorable to t
by smanuel 12y ago
A crazy (or maybe not so much) theory: Bacteria.
Some bacteria could cause sleep disorders (e.g. Tropheryma whipplei [1]) and this place could be favorable to this bacteria (or another) thanks to the uranium mine.
Just speculating here, but... why not.
[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20658941 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20658941
- gh02t 12y agoMy first guess would be some sort of chemical poisoning from the mine. Natural uranium is effectively inert in terms of radiation, but it is still a heavy metal and is pretty chemically toxic (in metallic form, I don't know how toxic the ore is). Or some leftover chemical from the mining. Or some gas leaking from underground. Or other radiation sources that are found near uranium (e.g. radon). But the article says they tested all that. Weird weird weird.