Mass Psychogenic Illness Attributed to Toxic Exposure at a High School
- 1 June 2000
- journal article
- letter
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 342 (22) , 1673-1675
- https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJM200006013422213
Abstract
Jones et al. (Jan. 13 issue)1 describe a Tennessee high school whose students and teachers fell victim to a mass psychogenic illness. One should not assume that mass psychogenic illness was the cause, however, given the finding that “floor-drain traps in the index teacher's classroom (designed to keep gas out of the room) were noted to be dry and therefore not working.”Keywords
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