Tsarevets Fortress in Veliko Tarnovo will be lit green at 20:00 on 9 October in solidarity with children with PANS\/PANDAS and their families, RegNews reports.<\/p>\n
Veliko Tarnovo Municipality is joining the international initiative following a request from the mother of a six-year-old boy affected by the condition. According to the report, the campaign involves nearly 120 sites and landmarks worldwide.<\/p>\n
PANS and PANDAS are associated with the sudden onset or marked worsening of neuropsychiatric symptoms in children. The US National Institute of Mental Health stresses that diagnosis requires a medical professional and that individual symptoms alone do not establish PANS or PANDAS.<\/p>\n
The green illumination is a symbolic awareness initiative. It is not medical advice and does not replace a medical consultation.<\/p>\n
RegNews \u2014 report on the Veliko Tarnovo initiative, 9 October 2026<\/a><\/p>\n US National Institute of Mental Health \u2014 PANS and PANDAS: Questions and Answers<\/a><\/p>\n Archive illustration: Tsarevets, 2013. It does not show the illumination on 9 October. Pudelek (Marcin Szala) \/ Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized by 5000.news. Original<\/a> \u00b7 CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tsarevets Fortress will be lit green at 20:00 on 9 October as part of an international awareness initiative.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,38,8],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-1319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veliko-tarnovo","category-obshtestvo","category-polezno","tag-aktualno"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}