Girls in another New York community suffering uncontrolled tics, potential link to Buffalo “outbreak” possible
February 22nd, 2012 Joshua
Two teen-age girls in Saratoga County, N.Y., have recently exhibited unexplained physical tics similar to those suffered by a group of more than a dozen young girls near Buffalo are not related, according to state regulators.
According to a report from The (Genesee, Wyoming, and Orleans counties) Daily News, two cases in which high school-age girls have developed uncontrolled tics similar to symptoms of Tourettes’ syndrome are unrelated to similar cases at LeRoy Junior/Senior High School near Buffalo. This was the determination of the state’s Dept. of Health recently after investigating the most recent cases.
In the fall of 2011, the first young girls in LeRoy began developing uncontrolled physical tics. More and more have begun suffering similar symptoms and local, state and federal investigations have been unable to determine what is the cause.
Early suspicions have ruled out stress or other medical conditions which may be causing this unique outbreak. Focus then turned to a train derailment near LeRoy in 1970 in which thousands of gallons of toxic chemicals were spilled. A most recent report suggests the spilling of “brine” water containing high levels of bromides and toxic heavy metals near the athletic fields the school this summer may have more to do with the symptoms.
Though health officials have been hesitating in identifying a source, parents of the girls in Corinth believe there may be a connection. One father told the news source that both girls were members of the school’s softball team and during a road trip last season to a tournament in Ohio, the team stopped in LeRoy for an unspecified amount of time.
