Is it something physical or sociological going on here?...

[Zambia] ‘Pupils’ fainting incidents spiritual’.

The Lusaka District Education Board (DEBs) has confirmed receiving a report on bizarre fainting incidents at Northmead Secondary School believed to be spiritual.

DEBs education secretary Joe Kamoko said a girl at the school has since been suspended and will not be allowed back until her parents deal with her spiritual problem.

Since school reopened this year, some Northmead Secondary School pupils have been fainting simultaneously as if in a trance.

When they re-gain their consciousness, the visibly terrified pupils claim to see spiritual beings apparently calling them to move to the ‘other side’...

[Australia] Mystery mass fainting.. at mass.

NO-one knows exactly what caused eleven people, mainly teenage girls to faint and become sick during a mass at a Sydney church early today.

Ambulance officers were called to Our Lady of Dolours Church on Archer St, Chatswood at 9.45 to treat a young girl who had fainted but when they arrived they found a number of people in a distressed state.

Most were suffering dizziness, nausea, and having trouble breathing...

[Pennsylvania] Dozens of students hospitalized from ‘adverse reactions’ after chemistry class experiment

Dozens of students were rushed to hospital after suffering mysterious adverse reactions – including nose bleeds and trouble breathing – to a routine experiment during a chemistry class.

More than 30 people were taken ill during the freshman lecture at Villanova University in Radnor, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday afternoon.

Details of the experiment, and the chemicals that were used in it, have not yet been revealed.