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Cluster of Guillain-Barre Syndrome in Yuma County raises concern

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Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011
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Federal health officials are among those trying to figure out an unusual health scare in the Yuma area. Testing over the summer revealed 8 cases of Guillain-Barre Syndrome in Yuma County, a rate 400 percent above the national average of about one case in 100,000. Cronkite News reporter Laura Palmisano has the story.

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