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"Beans!" In 2021, thousands of teenagers suddenly developed the same violent tics, every medical test came back clean, and the real cause turned out to be hiding on their phones. (spacedaily.com)

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A mysterious wave of severe tics swept through teenagers worldwide, baffling neurologists until investigators uncovered a digital culprit reshaping adolescent behavior in real time.

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[-] FluidBeef@quokk.au 8 points 1 day ago

Sounds like a dancing sickness.

[-] quick_snail@feddit.nl 6 points 18 hours ago

Mass sociogenic illness is one of the oldest documented patterns in medicine. Historians have traced examples back to the dancing plagues of medieval Europe, when whole villages spontaneously began dancing to the point of collapse and death

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