Officials are investigating why so many young girls in school are falling sick.
There has been a spate of schoolgirls falling sick in Iran. The BBC reports that over 1,000 schoolgirls have become unwell over the past three months and further detail is starting to file in that they may have been poisoned with toxic gas.
Early descriptions suggest that the sickness has been seen in 26 different schools, beginning with a school located south of Tehran in November 2022, where about 50 students fell ill, according to Al Jazeera.
The young girls were sent to hospital and some were forced to stay under observation for a number of days.
The symptoms were all eerily similar, including headaches, dizziness, nausea, fatigue and respiratory complications. Some have reportedly also temporarily lost movement in their limbs. It doesn’t appear to be just the children either, with teachers also impacted with the mysterious illness.
Over the last three months, the same scenario has been replicated at other schools across the region. As it has become more widespread, suspicion has started to creep in about what is causing it.
Read the article by Cassandra Green in Marie Claire.