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 […]
Le Roy Community Wants to Know Why Students Became Ill
By Kate McGowan Many questions and concerns have circulated in a Genesee County community after the Le Roy Central School District said a handful of its students started exhibiting neurological and “Tourette-like” symptoms. Wednesday night, school leaders and representatives from the state health department provided some answers, but as Kate McGowan explains, parents did not […]
