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The Cambodian Sleep Deaths

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In keeping with this month's spooky theme, here are the TRUE EVENTS that inspired Wes Craven's classic horror film, A Nightmare on Elm Street.

 SOURCEShttps://www.nytimes.com/1981/05/10/us/nightmares-suspected-in-bed-deaths-of-18-laotians.htmlSudden death in sleep of Laotian-Hmong refugees in Thailand: a case-control study; R G Munger; Am J Public Health. 1987 September; 77(9): 1187–1190.Refugee Stress and Folk Beliefs: Hmong Sudden Deaths; Shelley R. Adler https://moodle.swarthmore.edu/pluginfile.php/80112/mod_resource/content/0/Adler-_Hmong_Sudden_Deaths.pdfhttps://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/09/the-dark-side-of-the-placebo-effect-when-intense-belief-kills/245065/https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00001278.htmhttps://www.vulture.com/2014/10/nightmare-on-elm-street-oral-history.html

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