Doctors Baffled By Two Brothers Who Become Paralyzed in Vegetative State After The Sun Sets

[WhiteTara]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/doctors-baffled-two-brothers-become-233800029.html?nhp=1

Each night, two brothers in Pakistan suddenly become unable to talk, move, eat or drink.

After the sun goes down, they lie in a vegetative state. During the day, they are normal, playful boys.

Doctors in the capital of Islamabad, where the boys are being studied, say they have no clue as to what causes the children's mystifying behavior.

"We took this as a challenge," said Javed Akram, a medicine professor at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, according to The Associated Press.

"Our doctors are doing medical tests to determine why these kids remain active in the day but cannot open their eyes, why they cannot talk or eat when the sun goes down," he said while visiting the boys in the hospital.

[tkmorris]

1. Solar powered people?

I'm all for this "Green Revolution" thing but this is going too far.

[LisaL]

2. Parents are first cousins.

[LuvLoogie]

3. Secret government experiments in gene splicing with green algae.

[islandmkl]

4. don't like veggies and don't want to do their homework...

[Special Prosciuto]

5. I can't talk, move, eat, drink, or open my eyes when I am (gasp/shudder) . . . sleeping.

WTF is the problem here and why does it require hospitalization? What do the kids do at sunrise?

[greytdemocrat]

6. Aliens.

[hopemountain]

7. Eschscholzia californica?

or, they are running themselves ragged getting into mischief as little children are apt to do - or puppies, or kittens, etc.
as my dad used to say when the kids would pass out at the dinner table: "out for the count".

[Monk06]

8. Hoax or religious hysteria Just another fundamental-case scam

[Marrah_G]

11. Not necessarily

There is much we don't know about the brain and brain illnesses and/or deformities.

[JHB]

9. The Magic 8-Ball says...

..."odds are against it." My hinky-dar is pinging "hoax".

[Marrah_G]

10. There are some strange illnesses out there- google Fatal Familial Insomnia