SICK SCHOOL AUTISM STUMPS DOCS

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BIZARRE OUTBREAK: Parent-teachers at St. 's school in New Jersey have had

autistic children at many times the rate of the overall population.

By LEONARD GREENE November 5, 2007 -- It started out as a quirk. A couple of

parents at one northern New Jersey school gave birth to children with similar

learning disorders.

Then it became a crisis, and before the decade passed, 24 of the 42 children

born to teachers there were diagnosed with developmental disorders. Ten students

were diagnosed with autism " It was sort of a trickle effect, " said pediatrician

Lawrence Rosen. " Just gradually over the years it became a thing where it was

like, 'What about you? What about you?' "

Rosen and the parents at St. 's school in Northvale in Bergen County,

near the Rockland County border, were concerned enough about the phenomenon to

commission a surprising study that raised more questions than it answered.

After tracking down teachers who had worked at St. 's, researchers

learned that there is a statistical anomaly of developmental disorders at the

school. What they do not know is why.

The Northern Valley Regional High School district leases the former parochial

school from the Newark Archdiocese.

District officials shut down the school over the summer and relocated the

teachers and their students to other schools in the district.

Northern Valley had been using the site to educate kids with autism and other

disabilities. That put the teachers who worked there in a unique position of

recognizing the signs when it came to their own children.

" They were really concerned for their health and their kids' health, " Rosen

said. " Nobody had any idea why this happened. "

They still don't.

Rosen and the Hackensack University Medical Center, which conducted the inquiry

through its Deirdre Imus Environmental Center for Pediatric Oncology, hope that

environmental tests of the site will reveal some answers.

" We are concerned about these children, their families and our community, " said

Deirdre Imus, the wife of talk-show host Don Imus.

New Jersey has the highest rate of autism ever recorded in the United States,

with one out of every 94 children, according to a federal study released in

February. The national rate is one in 150.

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They should get Dr. Straus in there to test for airborne trichothecene

mycotoxins on particles smaller than conidia

On Nov 12, 2007 7:26 PM, Darlene <darlenesb2000@...> wrote:

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> BIZARRE OUTBREAK: Parent-teachers at St. 's school in New Jersey have

> had autistic children at many times the rate of the overall population.

> By LEONARD GREENE November 5, 2007 -- It started out as a quirk. A couple

> of parents at one northern New Jersey school gave birth to children with

> similar learning disorders.

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> Then it became a crisis, and before the decade passed, 24 of the 42

> children born to teachers there were diagnosed with developmental disorders.

> Ten students were diagnosed with autism " It was sort of a trickle effect, "

> said pediatrician Lawrence Rosen. " Just gradually over the years it became a

> thing where it was like, 'What about you? What about you?' "

> Rosen and the parents at St. 's school in Northvale in Bergen

> County, near the Rockland County border, were concerned enough about the

> phenomenon to commission a surprising study that raised more questions than

> it answered.

> After tracking down teachers who had worked at St. 's, researchers

> learned that there is a statistical anomaly of developmental disorders at

> the school. What they do not know is why.

> The Northern Valley Regional High School district leases the former

> parochial school from the Newark Archdiocese.

> District officials shut down the school over the summer and relocated the

> teachers and their students to other schools in the district.

> Northern Valley had been using the site to educate kids with autism and

> other disabilities. That put the teachers who worked there in a unique

> position of recognizing the signs when it came to their own children.

> " They were really concerned for their health and their kids' health, " Rosen

> said. " Nobody had any idea why this happened. "

> They still don't.

> Rosen and the Hackensack University Medical Center, which conducted the

> inquiry through its Deirdre Imus Environmental Center for Pediatric

> Oncology, hope that environmental tests of the site will reveal some

> answers.

> " We are concerned about these children, their families and our community, "

> said Deirdre Imus, the wife of talk-show host Don Imus.

> New Jersey has the highest rate of autism ever recorded in the United

> States, with one out of every 94 children, according to a federal study

> released in February. The national rate is one in 150.

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