What Really Happened in Le Roy, New York?
Just recently TLC rebroadcast a disturbing story that some of you may already be well familiar with.
In Le Roy, New York, a group of teenage girls from the same high school suddenly developed symptoms including facial twitching, violent limb gestures and uncontrollable verbal outbursts. What was going on in this tiny town?
So what really happened in that tiny town?
In the fall of 2011, a group of teenage girls from Le Roy high school in New York developed a variety of uncontrollable tics and spasming behaviors. After national exposure, the girls – ALL 15 of them – were diagnosed by doctors as suffering from stress-induced “conversion disorder” (a psychiatric diagnosis) and “psychogenic illness” (mass hysteria).
The media did what they could to paint this as hysterical teenage girls looking for attention. They ignored the other symptoms the girls were having (sore muscles, flu-like symptoms, extreme fatigue) and the fact that they continued to tic, seize and have tremors even while asleep and even under hospital sedation. They ignored the fact that apparently, a lot of people from that area are ill and have problems. Articles and news stories attempted to show “stressful precursors” to the onset of symptoms, even though none of the kids reported feeling any more or less stressed than they ever were, and these articles conveniently leave out the fact that the kids were also diagnosed with PANDIS (Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections; in short, that the symptoms were caused by/secondary to an infection) and that while being treated with antibiotics, they actually started to get better. They are still sick though, all this time later.
In 1970, a train derailed in the town of Le Roy NY, rupturing and spilling approximately 2,000 pounds of cyanide crystals, and 30,000 to 35,000 gallons of the solvent trichloroethene. This site is now considered an EPA Superfund site (meaning they need long term clean up of hazardous chemicals). It may be of some import to note that while looking for an environmental cause, it was found that all of these kids had been on the field at school. That was the only link that could be found.
Whether you believe in a cover up or not, it would be pretty amazing if more than 10 kids all had the exact same “conversion disorder” with the exact same symptoms at the same time, wouldn’t it? Mass hysteria is not a new phenomenon and undoubtedly some of the “fringe cases” of this bizarre illness or affectation could be attributed to it. But to claim that some of these kids had the exact same “conversion disorder” with the exact same symptoms at the same time and the rest just copied them stretches the boundaries of what is believable.
http://modernpioneermagazine.wordpress.com/2013/11/26/what-really-happened-to-the-kids-in-le-roy-new-york/
Researchers think the illness might have something to do with the amygdala, a locus of startle and fear responses in the brain, which has been shown to be overactive in patients with conversion disorder. “Ordinarily, the amygdala might create psychological distress, but instead, in these cases, it would create an involuntary movement,” says Mark Hallett, a senior investigator at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. He added, though, that while the theory is plausible, “we’re at a primitive level” in terms of understanding how it works.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/magazine/teenage-girls-twitching-le-roy.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
For now, the best we can do is to look at what environmental factors may be at work in Le Roy, when it comes to things that cause mitochondrial disorder. The officials who are investigating the case say they have “ruled out” environmental factors..
When we think about environmental factors and vaccine-injury, we need to look at not only the immediate area, but also at the environmental factors that are ubiquitous in the lives of those who live in places where there are “mysterious clusters” of illness – and I mean physical illness, not Conversion Disorder. What happened in Le Roy was not “all in their heads,” it’s physical. for more info; previous article, where you will find a thorough breakdown of how aluminum toxicity causes tic disorders and Tourette’s Syndrome.
