SUDS
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Since April, 1983, at least 130 Asians have died in essentially the same way. They cried out in their sleep. And then they died. Medical authorities call this Asian Death Syndrome, or Sudden unexplained death syndrome (SUDs). The refugees have various names for it, one of them being Night Terror.
“In the Philippines, it’s called bangungut, in Japan pokkuri, in Thailand something else,” says Dr. Robert Kirschner. “But it all roughly translates as the same thing: nightmare death.”
As a deputy Cook County medical examiner, Kirschner has investigated five nightmare deaths himself, including a Laotian father and son who died in a Northside Chicago apartment--in bed, asleep, and only 15 months apart.