By Marcella, VaxTruth With all the coverage of The Le Roy Twelve in the last 10 days, one thing has been a positive… at least from the standpoint of many in the “autism” community. There has been greatly increased attention to PANDAS – Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Associated with Streptococcus. PANDAS is what happens when […]
LeRoy Teen Rejects ‘Conversion Disorder’ Diagnosis
By Kate McGowan A story we’ve been following in Genesee County for weeks made national headlines a few days ago. Teen girls from LeRoy facing somewhat of a medical mystery. YNN’s Kate McGowan sat down to speak with one of the girls who rejects what doctors are telling her. LE ROY, N.Y. — Every day […]
The Leroy, N.Y. Mystery Continues and Frustrates…
By Dr. Russell D. Caram Over the past few weeks, you’ve probably seen an article about it, but in case you haven’t… there are 12 adolescent girls – all from the same high school in upstate NY. All about the same age. All developed a strange neurological disorder that manifests itself with uncontrollable tics, and […]
Teen girls’ mystery illness now has a diagnosis: mass hysteria
MSN Health Today January 19, 2012 The day after TODAY reported on the baffling case of 12 teenage girls at one school who mysteriously fell ill with Tourette’s-like symptoms of tics and verbal outbursts, a doctor who is treating some of the girls has come forward to offer an explanation. Dr. Laszlo Mechtler, a neurologist […]
N.Y. State Health Department: What’s Going On?
By Catherine Frompovich Twelve teenage girls in a New York school have developed tics and other classic symptoms resembling Tourette syndrome, and their parents want answers. But officials aren’t saying much. Tourette syndrome was first recognized and identified in 1885 after France’s compulsory smallpox vaccination program began. Tourette is considered rare in the United States; but […]
