In 1962, a laughing fit spread through Tanzania for 18 months
In January 1962, three girls at a mission boarding school in Kashasha, Tanganyika, started laughing. They couldn’t stop. Within weeks, 95 of the school’s 159 students were incapacitated by fits of laughter that lasted hours or even days. The school closed. Then the laughter spread.
What became known as the Tanganyika laughter …
