“People got mad,” Kenny recalled. “People got scared and people got mad. [They] were saying, ‘This could be my kid. I’ve got a 10-year-old and we don’t know where this is coming from or the cause.’” After a dozen cases, the state funded research with a $100,000 grant. But in two years, that money ran out while the number of diagnoses doubled.
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