Did Canadian reporter Jessica Robb have a complex partial seizure while live on air?

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Canadian journalist Jessica Robb can be seen slurring her words in the news broadcast, looking increasingly unsteady.

She finishes up her segment, before apologising to her co-host Nahreman Issa in the studio.

Robb said: "Sorry, Nahreman, I’m not feeling very well right now, and I’m about to…”

Robb's eyes lose focus and she seemed to stumble, before her co-host assured her she would get the help she needed.
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It looks to me like she might have had a complex partial seizure on air following an aura. There's no official report on what happened though.
 

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Looked like something happen, hope she’s ok.

There was an Aussie sports reporter (Formerly Australian Rugby Player) Wally Lewis who had a simple partial seizure on air in 2006. Turned out he’d had epilepsy for years, ended up having surgery in 2007 at same hospital I go to by same surgeon

I think he’s seizure free and patron and ambassador for the Queensland epilepsy association
 
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I remember a similar thing happening to an on-air reporter a few years ago. I think her episode was diagnosed as a severe migraine.
 
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