The Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic of 1962 was an outbreak of mass hysteria in or near the village of Kashasha on the western coast of Lake Victoria in Tanganyika, now part of Tanzania, near the border with Uganda.
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1. Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic (Wikipedia)
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