Erin Brockovich, Gibbs Looking into Mystery Illness in LeRoy

WGRZ
Written by Matt Pitts
Jan 28, 2012

Erin Brockovich, Gibbs Looking into Mystery Illness in LeRoy

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National environmental and health groups are beating a path to LeRoy, poking into the Genesee County community's startling cluster of teenage students with troubling neurological symptoms.

Groups led by environmental-activist icons Erin Brockovich and Lois Gibbs have been talking with parents and gathering background. A chapter of the Sierra Club has been digging into the LeRoy school's unusual connection with natural gas drilling. The Healthy Schools Network, Empire State Consumer Project and others are involved.

Leaders of these groups say authorities in New York may have acted too hastily in ruling out environmental contaminants, infectious illnesses or vaccinations as possible causes of the cluster, which now includes as many as 15 LeRoy Junior-Senior High School students who exhibit varying degrees of involuntary twitches and verbal outbursts not unlike those associated with Tourette's syndrome. Some report fainting spells and seizures, too.

The students, in both the senior and junior high parts of the building, are all girls with the possible exception of one newly diagnosed case.
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http://www.wgrz.com/news/article/152686/13/Brockovich-Gibbs-Looking-into-Mystery-Illness-in-LeRoy

Here are just a few things experts are evaluating:

5 natural gas wells ring the high school (fracking)
nearby toxic chemical spill
conversion disorder
recreational drug use
the human papillomavirus vaccine Gardasil