In The News – Forty Years Ago, a Mysterious Outbreak Plagued Tahoe/Truckee
November 13, 2025 | Member Submitted
Originally Published in Moonshine Ink, 11/13/2025, Written by Melissa Siig
In the winter of 1984 and for most of 1985, North Tahoe and Truckee became the center of a medical mystery. Half of the Incline High School girls basketball team came down with a chronic flu-like illness, causing the team to forfeit the rest of its season. Then a handful of teachers at Truckee High School became so fatigued they could no longer work; the same was the case with a few teachers at North Tahoe High School. Symptoms were also seen in employees of the Hyatt Regency in Incline Village.