"Weak Leg" Patients Village In Chongqing (Picture-7105815)

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CHONGQING, CHINA - JANUARY 9: (CHINA OUT) Zhang Bingzhu works in a field in the Longshun Village at Linjiang Township on January 9, 2007 in Chongqing Municipality, China. Longshun Village is home to 97 patients suffering from the ''weak leg'' disease which dates back to the outbreak in the village of a mysterious diseases in July, 1979. The outbreak had left 300 villagers infected with a disease that causes swelling of the lower leg and numbness of the extremtities. Doctors had diagnosed the disease as radiculitis but a cause of the disease remains unknown. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)

MIAMI - FEBRUARY 08: Mary Lumorirene sorts donated clothes at the Notre Dame d'Haiti Catholic Center where they continue to collect items to be shipped to Haiti for earthquake relief on February 8, 2010 in Miami, Florida. With thousands of people in need due to the earthquake the Haitian community in South Florida has responded by gathering food, medicine, money and other relief supplies to be sent to their homeland. As the one month anniversary of the earthquake arrives the amount of giving continues but some are afraid that as it gets farther away from the disaster date people will start to forget about the huge humanitarian needs in Haiti. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

MIAMI - FEBRUARY 08: Samuel Petie sorts through donated items at the Notre Dame d'Haiti Catholic Center where they continue to collect items to be shipped to Haiti for earthquake relief on February 8, 2010 in Miami, Florida. With thousands of people in need due to the earthquake the Haitian community in South Florida has responded by gathering food, medicine, money and other relief supplies to be sent to their homeland. As the one month anniversary of the earthquake arrives the amount of giving continues but some are afraid that as it gets farther away from the disaster date people will start to forget about the huge humanitarian needs in Haiti. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

MIAMI - FEBRUARY 08: Judelyne Paul (L) and Wilfred Joseph pack boxes full of donated food at the Notre Dame d'Haiti Catholic Center where they continue to collect items to be shipped to Haiti for earthquake relief on February 8, 2010 in Miami, Florida. With thousands of people in need due to the earthquake the Haitian community in South Florida has responded by gathering food, medicine, money and other relief supplies to be sent to their homeland. As the one month anniversary of the earthquake arrives the amount of giving continues but some are afraid that as it gets farther away from the disaster date people will start to forget about the huge humanitarian needs in Haiti. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

MIAMI - FEBRUARY 08: Pierre Anne Chimene sorts through clothes that had been dropped off at the Notre Dame d'Haiti Catholic Center where they continue to collect items to be shipped to Haiti for earthquake relief on February 8, 2010 in Miami, Florida. With thousands of people in need due to the earthquake the Haitian community in South Florida has responded by gathering food, medicine, money and other relief supplies to be sent to their homeland. As the one month anniversary of the earthquake arrives the amount of giving continues but some are afraid that as it gets farther away from the disaster date people will start to forget about the huge humanitarian needs in Haiti. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

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CHONGQING, CHINA - JANUARY 9: (CHINA OUT) Zhang Bingzhu works in a field in the Longshun Village at Linjiang Township on January 9, 2007 in Chongqing Municipality, China. Longshun Village is home to 97 patients suffering from the ''weak leg'' disease which dates back to the outbreak in the village of a mysterious diseases in July, 1979. The outbreak had left 300 villagers infected with a disease that causes swelling of the lower leg and numbness of the extremtities. Doctors had diagnosed the disease as radiculitis but a cause of the disease remains unknown. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)

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