Talk:Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic
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[edit] Dispute as to verifiability and factual accuracy
This page is unsourced. Of the three external links, two are dead, and the third leads to a page that doesn't discuss the "Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic" at all. --Carnildo 06:38, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] ???
What do you mean? The last link works and discusses the laughter epidemic. --User:Wackojacko1138 00:45, 20 February 2006
- Agreed. The americanscientist.org link works, and the first several paragraphs describe the Tanganyika incident.
- The NIH have a 167-70 page document published in 1963 which describes the incident. "An epidemic of laughing in the Bukoba district of Tanganyika." [1].
- --Kevin L'Huillier 23:45, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] University Challenge
The BBC's quiz programme University Challenge had the following question in tonight's show ((between Newcastle and Royal Holloway College): Apparently an instance of an MPI, or mass psychogenic illness, the epidemic that hit the vicinity of Kashasha in Tanganyika in 1962, originating with a group of teenage schoolgirls, caused in those afflicted an outbreak of what? What's more someone from the Royal Holloway team knew the answer. I don't know whether or not this adds any more authenticity to this article (maybe Jeremy Paxman got the question from from Wikipedia ;-). 80N 20:12, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
