[CPEO-BIF] LeRoy, New York "school to review environmental tests in medical mystery"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

N.Y. school to review environmental tests in medical mystery

By Phil Gast,
CNN
January 28, 2012

A school system in upstate New York, where more than a dozen female  
high school students are suffering from uncontrolled verbal outbursts  
and twitching, said it has hired a company to review environmental  
testing within the school and community.

The development comes as famed activist Erin Brockovich and other  
environmentalists are looking into whether a chemical that spilled in  
a 1970 train derailment about four miles from the school has anything  
to do with the girls' mysterious behavior. One of Brockovich's  
associates walked the grounds of Le Roy Senior High School on  
Saturday and traveled to the derailment site.

...

Brockovich told HLN's "Dr. Drew" on Friday night that she will try to  
corroborate a note she said one of the affected family members  
received about the derailment.

"The contaminated rock, fill and soil was used to build the new  
school," Brockovich said of the note.

...

For the entire story, see
http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/28/health/new-york-students-illness/ 
index.html#1_undefined,0_

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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