Demon Infestation at New York School District? 12 Students With Tourette’s-Like Symptoms
'Scary' CDC Diagnosed Cases of Tourette Syndrome Map
[Amazing and disturbing CDC Diagnosed Cases of Tourette Syndrome Map-click image to enlarge]
“We do have some answers. We will share as much as we can without sharing the diagnosis. We can’t do that, that’s not right, but it’s a federal issue, but it’s not right.”
Dr. Greg Young, New York State Health Department
Update, January 19, 2012, the diagnosis, Mass Hysteria and/or Mass Psychogenic Illness.
A rather intriguing report from New York state which seems, so far, to mimic the plotline of a ‘demonic possession’ movie. The real life ‘plot’:
Twelve high school girls in the Leroy Central School District located between Rochester and Buffalo have come down with ‘Tourette’s-like’ symptoms. According to WGRZ.com, at a Wednesday meeting for frightened parents school administrators said:
“All 12 students have been diagnosed and are being treated. They are not releasing causes due to HIPPA laws. They said they found similarities among some cases but wouldn’t elaborate.”
Is this a true statement? Not exactly.
Some parents at the meeting were not satisfied by the response they got from officials. Jim DuPont spoke about his concerns afterwards. He said his daughter has missed almost every day of school in the past month.
“Now she has to be tutored,” said DuPont. “And I worry about her future. She’s only 17. She can’t even drive now.” DuPont said his daughter is being treated by a neurologist, but still hasn’t gotten a diagnosis.
DuPont says she has never exhibited any symptoms like this before. “It’s heartbreaking because you know her normal mannerisms,” he said.
Based on the news reports this was an onset of Tourette-like symptoms in 12 high school girls in the same school district which could be classified as a ‘cluster’. The event under investigation by the CDC.
The ‘Tourette’s-Like Illness’ moniker used by the press, not by the New York Health State Department who, in the Wednesday night meeting with fearful parents, claimed there is a ‘diagnosis’ which we can’t share due to federal HIPAA privacy laws. Not so ‘private’ the rather alarming CDC ‘Diagnosed Tourette Syndrome Map’ of the United States with a nearly four times higher rate of Tourette Syndrome diagnosis in the Northeast versus the West. A map which doesn’t explain why a ‘Tourette’s-like’ cluster has popped up in a localized area, Leroy, New York. Still fuzzy, the ‘diagnosis’ that New York Health Department can’t share with concerned parents due to federal privacy laws, HIPAA.
Amazing, isn’t it, how a possible neurological disorder that’s appeared in a cluster falls under HIPAA rules?
Would the same rules apply if the students contracted a flu-like virus, i.e., the new strain of H1N1 Flu virus, H3N2v?
Tics are classified as either simple or complex. Simple motor tics are sudden, brief, repetitive movements that involve a limited number of muscle groups. Some of the more common simple tics include eye blinking and other eye movements, facial grimacing, shoulder shrugging, and head or shoulder jerking. Simple vocalizations might include repetitive throat-clearing, sniffing, or grunting sounds. Complex tics are distinct, coordinated patterns of movements involving several muscle groups. Complex motor tics might include facial grimacing combined with a head twist and a shoulder shrug. Other complex motor tics may actually appear purposeful, including sniffing or touching objects, hopping, jumping, bending, or twisting. Simple vocal tics may include throat-clearing, sniffing/snorting, grunting, or barking. More complex vocal tics include words or phrases. Perhaps the most dramatic and disabling tics include motor movements that result in self-harm such as punching oneself in the face or vocal tics including coprolalia (uttering socially inappropriate words such as swearing) or echolalia (repeating the words or phrases of others). However, coprolalia is only present in a small number (10 to 15 percent) of individuals with TS. Some tics are preceded by an urge or sensation in the affected muscle group, commonly called a premonitory urge. Some with TS will describe a need to complete a tic in a certain way or a certain number of times in order to relieve the urge or decrease the sensation.
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These girls need IVIG immediately! The same thing happened to my daughter.
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Ann Mohler Reply:
January 16th, 2012 at 22:18
That’s how PANDAS starts. Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Assoc. w/ Strep!!!!!!!
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Uncommon adverse Gardisil effects normally don’t involve such a large cluster of similar cases, esp. in one place. A relatively new, degenerative parasite-borne disease with little or no known method of transmission (ie, water, fly bite, food) could cause undue panic. Nodding syndrome is actively being investigated by the CDC (http://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/video/nodding/nodding.htm)
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/12/27/in-uganda-another-outbreak-of-nodding-syndrome-a-disease-epidemiologists-cant-explain/
In Uganda, Another Outbreak of Nodding Syndrome, a Disease Epidemiologists Can’t Explain
Nodding syndrome, a disease that has sickened more than a thousand children in northern Uganda since the summer, is named for its most distinctive symptom: involuntary, at times violent bobbing of the head, like someone repeatedly nodding yes or snapping out of a doze. Outbreaks of nodding syndrome cropped up in South Sudan this summer, in the same region of Uganda two years ago, in southern Sudan—not yet an independent nation—in 2001, and periodically in remote mountain villages in Tanzania. Nearly half a century has passed since the first reported case, but epidemiologists still have only a rudimentary understanding of this mysterious disease. They’ve found few hints as to what might cause it, and no effective treatments.
The diseases strikes otherwise healthy children, usually between ages 5 and 15. The children first have trouble concentrating; soon, the characteristic head-nodding, often triggered by eating or the sight of food, begins. As the disease progresses, it stunts growth and leads to physical disabilities and cognitive decline. The prognosis only gets worse from there: pediatrician Jennifer Foltz, an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer who tracked the 2009 Ugandan outbreak, says in a CDC video about the condition, “We haven’t had any reports that anybody’s improved and gotten better from this disease, and we have gotten reports that children have passed away from the disease.” Scott Dowell, another CDC investigator, had an even bleaker take. “Once they have it, they are going to die with it, and much earlier than they would have otherwise,” he told Nature News.
Recent investigations have yielded some clues. Epidemiologists now know that the syndrome is a new seizure disorder, with seizures that, among other effects, cause the neck to momentarily lose muscle tone, triggering a head bob. Brain imaging studies have uncovered signs of neural degeneration. Some researchers have suggested that Onchocerca volvulus, the parasitic worm that causes river blindness, might be linked to nodding syndrome as well—but what the parasite’s role in the disease is, exactly, remains a mystery. So, too, does how to treat the condition.
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We are going through the same thing with my 17 year old granddaughter. We have been to Boston and new York City searching for answers.. No “real” answers.. it is driving us nuts!!! She WAS heavy in to sports, excellent student, musical etc. Now she can’t even go to school. I could go on forever….
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sarah Reply:
January 14th, 2012 at 09:25
deb! your daughter has strep…i am almost sure of it as my daughter as well as other children in our area are suffering the same thing…they all have tested positive for strep and all are on strong long term antibitics and are doing well. please look up dr. susan swedo who discovered the strep link and you will get anwsers!my daughter did not have a fever or sore throat but she still had strep. best of luck to you ! also look at today show “saving sammy” video.
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Lisa Sullivan Reply:
January 15th, 2012 at 19:17
It’s strep….or the antibodies from strep attacking the brain. It develops into PANDAS! pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorder associated with streptococcus – My son has it.
After 3 strep infections he developed tics, OCD, difficult behavior….totally different kid. 3 months of Keflex and the horrible symptoms went away.
Please seek a doctor who knows about PANDAS or one who is willing to treat it.
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Deb, have you guys tried IVIG therapy? My daughter is now 99% recovered!
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I’d like some more info from anyone who’s child has this. I’d like to ask a couple of questions and do some research on it, for no reason than maybe I’ll stumble onto something helpful. slipperyelm@live.com
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When my daughter was five years old she began having tics and behavior issues, to keep a very long story short…..after misdiagnosis and several try’s at meds, she was not getting better, Tuorettes, OCD, GAD, SAD and manic behavior… I googled strep and behavior disorders and came across info on PANDAS. My daughter constantly had strep and I would only discover that after her sister came down with a sore throat and would take them both in for a throat swap. Sure enough she was also positive. never did she present with sore throat or headache or fever. Once we decided to treat her for PANDAS her symptoms went away, until…. Her next infection. her behavior would turn on a dime, and her tics would pop up. Each time her tics were different, as soon as that happenedI would take her to get her strep testing. E ery other month or at least 13 times per year, she tested positive for strep. She was always positive! had her tonsils and adenoids out and she went five months with out strep. What a different child she became. One day BOOM!!! her behavior and motor tics returned, took her the following morning for a test and sure enough positive, no fever, sore throat or headache. A day on antibioticsand she was back to normal. She is nearing age 11 and it has been at least three years since her last strep infection and she has not had any tics or wild behaviors….So happy we did not put her on Risperdol as her doc had wanted to treat her for Bi-polar disorde… I can only imagine how many meds she would be on now. Still suffers from anxiety, but that is it.
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HAS THESE KIDS HAD A FLU OR H1N1 VACCINE?
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HAS ANY OF THESE KIDS HAD A FLU SHOT OR H1N1 VACCINE IN 2010-11?
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My son (now age 4) had a sudden onset of this type of symptoms back in June (just before his 4th birthday)…it was sudden onset and progressed to an alamring level within 2 weeks. He was hospitalized and had over 50 blood tests done, EEG and MRI that turned up nothing! The one factor that has been found was a commerical grade pesticide that was sprayed in the home while he was present (our dog died durign this same time frame)…at that time every time he was away from our home for 24 or more hours his symptoms stopped…..we are now seeing more tics resurfacing although no where near the level they were in June.
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The Migraine Headache sympton is often caused by Excitotoxins, according to Neurosurgeon, Dr. Russell Blaylock, in his fine book, “Excitotoxins – The Taste That Kills”, and Excitotoxins excite the body’s Nerve Cells similar to Tourette Syndrome!
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