Re: Le Roy, NY, USA: Unusual outbreak of Tourette-like symptoms in 6 students at Junior-Senior High School
At least from what the aunt of one of the girls said on the latest Buzz radio show, (thanks for finding the update, Digger), the girls in Le Roy are seeing a neurologist in Buffalo whom they like. It sounds like there was some delay in getting to that point, so I hope things turn out OK for them.
The possibility of 14 cases put forth in the MSNBC article fits with what I read on a forum. The poster was from the area and had heard that the count was 9-10 at that time. (On Nov. 9th.)
As Laidback Al pointed out, we have no idea here what could be going on. I better clarify something that Digger brought up, (this confused me a lot when I first read about anti-NMDAR encephalitis):
So far anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis is only rarely connected to cancer. Dr. Dalmau's background was in neurological manifestations of cancer, so that can be confusing, (and alarming), to see highlighted in his biography. (I think some of the online biographies have nothing mentioned about his latest work so it looks like he is strictly a cancer specialist.)
They don't know why people get it. The only recommendations I have read about are timely testing and treatment. That seems to help the outcome, but the disorder is fairly rare and only recently recognized.
I have no idea if this outbreak is autoimmune at all. Thank goodness that is the job of of specialists to sort through that.
At least from what the aunt of one of the girls said on the latest Buzz radio show, (thanks for finding the update, Digger), the girls in Le Roy are seeing a neurologist in Buffalo whom they like. It sounds like there was some delay in getting to that point, so I hope things turn out OK for them.
The possibility of 14 cases put forth in the MSNBC article fits with what I read on a forum. The poster was from the area and had heard that the count was 9-10 at that time. (On Nov. 9th.)
As Laidback Al pointed out, we have no idea here what could be going on. I better clarify something that Digger brought up, (this confused me a lot when I first read about anti-NMDAR encephalitis):
If Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis represents the immune systems response to a perceived cancer it has detected...
They don't know why people get it. The only recommendations I have read about are timely testing and treatment. That seems to help the outcome, but the disorder is fairly rare and only recently recognized.
I have no idea if this outbreak is autoimmune at all. Thank goodness that is the job of of specialists to sort through that.
Comment