Real life RAGE virus!

[R-type]

http://www.8bm.com/diatribes/volume02/014/275.htm

[King o' Cthulhu]

how legit is this?

[Cosmo]

King o' Cthulhu wrote:

how legit is this?

I dunno...

But this is a great line:

the article wrote:

Not only do we have every modern convenience known to man but evidently when we were drawing straws for "culture bound syndromes" the Miskito got the "rage" and we got skinny chicks.

Spoiler:

Heh... skinny chicks...

[Magikcat]

King o' Cthulhu wrote:

how legit is this?

Hmmmmm.... "Mosquito" people, "greasy sickness"....

I call shenanagans.

[James Marcus]

This is interesting

[Kirth Gersen]

Studied cultural anthropology at University with a guy who spent years in South America. He said some tribes there had a similar syndrome called "amok" (the source of the expression "running amok," etc.), which apparently was not unknown in Java and Indonesia as well.