In Afghanistan, a quiet epidemic affecting Afghan women and girls

By Lynzy Billing | Doctors and authorities are at odds as to the cause of mysterious collective ailments affecting Afghan women and girls.

Editor’s note: Today, I’m sharing Lynzy Billing’s article from Undark on what some may call mass psychogenic illness. Some cases are documented as poisonings, others as mental disorders. Either way, the level of suffering of Afghan women and girls is extreme. According to a recent Gallup survey and poll, 98% of women rate their lives so poorly that they…