In maybe 15 years or more, we will be testing all so called autoimmune diseases for an infectious etiology before giving it a label of a disease of UNKNOWN cause. There is a cause.

Read some of this information.

http://www.ctlymedisease.org/conference1.htm

This manifests in various ways depending on part of brain.

These patients are rarely given the correct diagnosis, when they do develop neuro issues years later they are labeled
MS, Parkinson’s, Dementia etc. Basically diseases with no known cause. The cause in many cases is a chronic infection. When Treated with IV antibiotics they generally improve.

None of the neuro degenerative diseases are treated this way. They are treating the symptoms of decreased dopamine and not the source which is infectious.
Michael J Fox and cast were in an endemic region for lyme.
It is not unlikely that some of the cast members were bitten and infected.

Many times lyme is treated with short term orals and if done early usually works. If the infection goes on longer where its in the CNS the orals will not kill them all.

This particular spirochete (bacterium) seems to be able to evade the host immune system. It is slow growing compared to other bacteria which might explain why symptoms come on very gradually and tend to wax and wayne. It can mimic many other more common entities.

I believe Michale J Fox and cast suffer from post lyme syndrome or AKA neuro borreliosis.

I do not know if they have been treated for this. If I were one of them I would get the appropriate labs done by someone who specializes in this. One would think an infectious disease doctor would be the first choice, but its actually the last choice.

I’m not aware of any studies into the previous land use of the sites involved, but what you suggest is certainly plausible.

I checked out your toxicsites.org. You may wish to add this example from my hometown in Australia to your list of home sites built on waste sites. A housing development was built on a disused timber pole impregnation plant. It took 3 years to resolve the legal wranglings. More here.

I’m still thinking about that gambling addiction linked to dopamine agonists. Is it possible that all addictions involve an environmental chemical imbalance?

But the world does include several thousand groups of similar size (even including equally famous individuals), and there are also many rare diseases whose increase would attract attention, so, even given the one-in-a-thousand probability, I would not be surprised to hear of several stories like this even if there were no non-chance causes involved.