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Situation Update No. 1
Posted:2012-01-12, 19:41:12 [UTC]
Ref.no.: EH-20120112-33762-USA
Situation Update No. 1
On 2012-01-27 at 04:09:22 [UTC]
Event: Epidemic Hazard
Location: USA State of New York LeRoy High School LeRoy
Number of Infected: 17 person(s)
Situation:
There’s an ongoing medical mystery that continues to grow both in western New York and here in the Capital Region. There are now at least 17 high school students in two communities at opposite ends of New York State who have come down with Tourette Syndrome-like symptoms — two of those students live in Corinth, in Saratoga County. Corinth High School sophomore Alycia Nicholson celebrated her 16th birthday on Thursday by being rushed to Saratoga Hospital emergency room with seizures and symptoms that have beleaguered her for months. “To be honest they’re getting worse,” she says, “I’m moving more. I’m getting tics. It’s getting worse.” Like Alycia, 17-year old Lori Brownell is also a standout scholar/athlete at Corinth. Both girls have been exhibiting ongoing convulsions and tics similar to fifteen students from LeRoy High School in Genesee County. “I think there’s a possible strain of something,” says Randy Nicholson, Alycia’s father. “Maybe something that these girls in particular were exposed to is triggering it.”
The students in Genesee County have been diagnosed with a rare form of Conversion Disorder — formerly known as Mass Hysteria, a psychological problem that can happen in groups. The New York State Health Department studies a dozen cases in LeRoy and concluded it’s not environmental, not infectious, and not caused by vaccinations. “I think there’s something more to it,” said Lisa Bradshaw, a Corinth resident whose 13-year old son was diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome last year. “I do think it’s environmental, that’s my opinion by I’m not an expert. I really don’t know. “I’m just worried because my son is within the time from (of when Lori and Alycia first started having symptoms),” she continued. “These girls need some answers. They shouldn’t have to live with this for the rest of their life. There’s got to be something behind this.” It should be noted that both Alycia and Lori were teammates on a travel softball team that stopped for dinner in LeRoy last summer. In addition, Alycia’s older brother attends college at RIT and travels back and forth. The State Health Department has been looking into the case in Genesee County for more than three months and they say the LeRoy School campus has been cleared as the cause. Now the National Institutes of Health has offered to see some of the girls who have symptoms.
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