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Miscellaneous See other Miscellaneous Articles Title: Parents urge more tests as twitches spread at New York school LE ROY, New York (Reuters) - State health officials have added three more names to a growing list of students in this working-class town who are experiencing mysterious tics and twitching, while authorities on Saturday sought to assure parents the community's high school is safe. Although the symptoms are typically associated with Tourette Syndrome, that has been ruled out in all but one case, causing fear and confusion among many residents of Le Roy, N.Y., about 50 miles east of Buffalo. "The building is safe for the community," District Superintendent Kim Cox told several hundred residents gathered in the auditorium of Le Roy Junior-Senior High School on Saturday. The Le Roy Central School District scrambled to conduct environmental testing for air quality and mold when an initial 12 students developed tics and impulsive verbal outbursts last fall. But state health investigators ruled out environmental factors, latent side-effects from drugs or vaccines like Gardasil, trauma or genetic factors. Instead, doctors say conversion disorder - once called mass hysteria - is to blame among an expanding list of patients. Three more unconfirmed cases have been added to the original list of students exhibiting the symptoms, and others are being examined. Air quality and mold surveys at the school have all come back negative, according to district officials and representatives of Leader Professional Services Inc., a company hired to conduct environmental testing at the school after the symptoms first surfaced. Senior Industrial Hygienist Mary Ellen Holvey on Saturday said air and water tests turned up nothing, and recommended follow-up testing of air inside the school. She said that would help determine whether a soil review will be conducted - a test demanded by those residents who believe environmental factors are to blame. One parent, Melissa Cianci, said her daughter no longer wants to attend school in light of the outbreak. She said students should be moved to another location as the investigation continues. "She doesn't know if it's safe," Cianci said, adding her daughter had perfect attendance prior to the incidents. "I'm done listening to you," she yelled at the panel before storming out, later criticizing the district for being less than candid early in the investigation and demanding that soil tests be conducted of school grounds. Though there is no evidence of environmental contamination, for some residents environmental concerns were heightened by the district's recent disclosure of six natural gas wells on school property, as well as possible contamination from the nearby site of a 1970 train derailment and chemical spill. Regarding the wells on school land, William Albert, of the district's law firm Harris Beach, said, "It's not unusual. We're out in the country." Several representatives of renowned environmentalist Erin Brockovich were barred recently from collecting soil samples near the school by local police. State health officials note that all of the patients have had significant stress factors, which can worsen the condition. Three of them had pre-existing medical conditions, including one confirmed case of Tourette's Syndrome. Just one of the patients in male. Congresswoman Kathy Hochul, who represents the district, sent a letter to the environmental Protection Agency on Monday calling for a review of the Superfund site, which the EPA said is regularly monitored, including testing scheduled later this month. (Editing by Paul Thomasch) Poster Comment: From among comments: JustMyOpinion • The first test that should have been done would have been soil sample test if they have 6 natural gas wells on the school property. Also with the chemical spill from the 1970's it could have gotten into the ground water around that area. Why is this school dragging it's feet about these test. All 14 /15 families should get Lawyers and force the School District to do test and find what is wrong. I would also like to know if all 14 or 15 of these girls been tested for blood problems, viral problems, toxins in their bloodstream? Have they had MRI's on their brains? If they are having seizures then they should be having all kinds of test run. Many years ago we lived on a base where there was a chemical leak and it got into the ground water in the community. Talk about trying to hide the facts, but the Military did a good cover-up job. Within a year I began to go through menopause at the age of 27 years old. I had a friend who suddenly developed thyroid disease and her husbands hair began to fall out for no reason. There were tons of medical problems with people on base within a year, but of course it was all in our heads. They refused to do toxicity test on any of us. Within 4 years I had developed a blood problem that is lupus related. Not one of my grandparents on either side, none of my aunts and uncles, my parents or my 6 siblings had any of the symptons/disease I had so I have always felt it came from that spill as we lived near it and we had been drinking the water over a month before we found out about the spill. Please get all those girls tested to make sure they have no toxins in their systems from the gas wells or from the previous chemical leak. Does anyone remember the homes that had to be destroyed in New York because they had been built over a garbage dump and people had dumped chemicals there. Many, many people developed sickness and disease from that place. Robert • Everett, Washington • This sounds like Bromide poisoning to me - are these kids "flame retarded?" Brominated oils are added to soft drinks. The bromide in “Mountain Dew” type products, including Orange Crush, Sun Drop and Fresca, competes with iodide for uptake and utilization by the thyroid gland, thus causing a thyroid deficiency (hypothyroidism). Many of my patients know that they are tired, have dry skin, are losing their hair, and are having trouble with their memory, but only think it is old age. In reality, they are low in active thyroid (T3). Bromide and bromine are plentiful in our environment, without drinking more in a soda. Brominated pesticides are sprayed on fruits and vegetables. Bromine containing drugs are used widely in asthma medications. Over the past 20 years, bromination of bakery products was implemented by food processors. Over the past 20 years, an increase prevalence of cancer of the thyroid and breast cancer has been observed in American women. Bromide toxicity, thyroid and breast cancer potential, are correlated to the tissue bromide levels. So don’t drink Mountain Dew type products to add to your problems +4 THETIMEISNOW The fracking #$%$ unit is sittin' on the property-gee-kinda the thing you might wander over and check!! lovliv • It isn't neuro. It's an unconscious mimicry, probably of the boy who actually has Tourette's. It happened to boys on a basketball team in another New York town. The boys played ball with one boy who had mild Tourettes and almost all of them started unconsciously mimicking the tics - pulling their shorts, wiping their hands down their sides, shaking their heads, etc. 1 CHRISTIE • Pompano Beach, Florida • so they ruled out vaccines, did they all have the same vaccine and/or any vaccines recently?? If the answer is yes, then you have the cause. Its not 'brain science', or is it? 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 it has become more common, affecting 1 percent of the population since 2000. Autism Spectrum Disorders also affect 1 percent of the population. One of the classic symptoms of Tourette is an involuntary muscle twitching, or motor tic, that may affect the ability to speak at times. It’s a frightening and debilitating condition that may be an adverse reaction to vaccines containing aluminum, especially the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines that young girls are encouraged to get. There are two HPV vaccines, Gardasil® and Cervarix®, both of which have “generous” aluminum amounts [as high as 225 mcg] as adjuvants. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System details thousands of adverse effects experienced by girls and women after receiving Gardasil®. [1] Other aluminum-containing vaccines include DTaP, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis A, Hib [Haemophilus influenza B] and PVC [pneumonia]. [2] jay • 8 of the first 12 students to show symptoms have been vaccinated for HPV Cashank • Purchase, New York • It's Mossad nerve gas. The Zionists are behind everything bad in the world. This is a test run for their little plot to invade Iran, drag the world into WWII and annihilate humankind. Those are some shifty Jews -14 Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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