Are Cheerleaders Hysterical Mimics?

Fascinating story on The Current on CBC Radio about a group of cheerleaders in upstate New York. A group of girls are exhibiting turrets like symptoms and it is being called a case of mass hysteria. Celebrity lawyer Erin Brockowich is getting involved, to try to determine if the girls have been subjected to environmental poisons. A doctor from London says that this is the worst thing that could happen, as this kind of attention breeds the hysteria.