Le Roy News

The mysterious Tourette's-like epidemic that has afflicted 21 people, mostly teenage girls from a small high school in rural upstate New York, is strikingly similar to a deadly 'Dancing Plague' that affected 400 people in France nearly 500 years ago.

Sandra Tan, of the Buffalo News , has put together a great summary of the issues and facts in the situation in Le Roy .

To date, there are 18 cases of teenage students from Le Roy Junior-Senior High School who have developed tic-like symptoms over the course of the school year.

Months of mounting frustration surrounding a mysterious illness apparently causing facial tics and verbal outbursts that started among teenagers in Le Roy, N.Y., has come to a head as reports of the illness expand and the high school where it began comes under fire.

In previous reports. Dr. Laszlo Mechtler has said Dr. Susan Swedo has indicated she would issue a statement confirming the conversion disorder diagnosis for the Le Roy teens with tics.

LE ROY, NY Superintendent Kim M. Cox from the Le Roy Central School District explains air and soil testing after "tic" like symptoms were found in teenagers there.

It isn't surprising, according to Dr. Laszlo Mechtler, that a doctor from New Jersey who makes a living diagnosing PANDAS came to that conclusion today in the Le Roy illness case.

The New Jersey neurologist who examined eight students from Le Roy with the strange Tourette-like symptoms announced he found evidence they could be suffering from Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections, or PANS or PANDAS.

Several advocacy groups working with parents of afflicted students in Le Roy have released a detailed call for more thorough testing in and around the Genesee County high school where as many as 18 students have reported unusual neurological symptoms.

Three more teenagers at an Upstate New York town have been diagnosed with a mysterious ticking and twitching.

As a one-time resident of Genesee County, there are a lot of things I know about Le Roy.

As doctors struggle to explain why more than a dozen girls in this town are suffering from Tourette's-like symptoms, new questions are swirling around the cleanup of a 40-year-old chemical spill that contaminated some of the local water supply.

Angelo A. Cassidy , 35, of Lewis Place, Batavia, and Charles R. Gay , 59, of Hemlock Ridge Road, Medina, 59, are charged with petit larceny and conspiracy 6th.

Bob Bowcock, lead researcher for the Erin Brockovich team, said he feels like there are still too many unanswered questions for him to walk away from further investigation in Le Roy.

In a tiny, unknown New York town, something remarkable is happening. Something that, in this rabidly anti-Freudian, anti-Jungian, anti-psychodynamic, cognitively, behaviorally and pharmacologically indoctrinated climate of contemporary psychology and psychiatry , shouldn't be happening.

Fifteen teenage girls report a mysterious outbreak of spasms, tics and seizures in upstate New York.

The girls who have been influenced by media hype and discontinued treatment aren't doing as well, Mechtler said Saturday evening in an exclusive interview with The Batavian .

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.

WASHINGTON, DC The attention of the nation seems to be focused on the small community of Le Roy, New York as experts try and figure out what is causing a mysterious illness that has impacted high school students there.

More than 200 people attended to hear the district's latest plans to conduct additional environmental tests in and around school grounds.