Activist Erin Brockovich looking into teens' mystery ailment

I don’t know if you remember but I wrote a blog post about Erin Brockovich after watching the movie about her starring Julia Roberts, if you want to read the post click here. Back then I wrote about her contribution and enormous commitment in the lawsuit against Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PE & G), which poisoned the groundwater to the inhabitants of the town Hinkley. Brockovich and her team found toxic chemicals in the drinking water that could lead to cancer and other serious illnesses. Today Erin Brockovich still is a well know environmental activist and has been given a lot of attention in the media lately for looking into a teens' mystery ailment at Le Roy Junior-Senior High School.

At Le Roy there has been a mystical outbreak of teenagers suffering from facial tics, verbal outbursts and uncontrollable muscle contractions, and no one knows what is causing this mysterious ailment. The doctor Jennifer McVige thinks that the students are suffering from “mass psychogenic illness” which is a rare sickness where emotional responses are covered into physical symptoms, but Erin Brockovich seems to believe otherwise. In 1970 there was a chemical spill from a train only 3 miles from the future high school. Brockovich suspects that when the school was built in 2003 some of the contaminated soil may have been used during construction. The fact that Brockovich and an accompanying group were ordered off the property of Le Roy Junior-Senior High School when trying to find answers makes her theory highly  reasonable.

Here is a link to a short report about the mysterious case. 

Sources:

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/erin-brockovich-investigates-girls-tics-15460840

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-01-29/erin-brockovich-school/52870428/1

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-01-26/conversion-disoreder-chemical-exposure-NY-LeRoy/52810214/1