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Toxic Burn/Toxic Burden
A pattern of illness doctors cannot explain has been emerging on and around East Tennessee's Oak Ridge reservation, where nuclear weapons fuel and components have been manufactured for five decades. More than 200 workers and residents report neurological, respiratory and immune system disorders. Meanwhile, scientists are discovering that environmental contamination on and around the reservations is far worse than previously believed. Many of ill suspect - but cannot prove - their health problems are linked to this contamination. So, too, do some parents and educators in one county adjoining the reservation where special education enrollment more than doubled from 1990 to 1996.
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Despite its tradition of protecting American fighting men and women, the Pentagon has been criticized after the 1991 war with Iraq for ignoring about 75,000 veterans of that conflict who complain of mysterious symptoms usually referred to as Gulf War Syndrome. The Pentagon denies this, but the Gannett News Service probe found a blitz of vaccines may have weakened immune systems, birth defects are rocketing in infants born to Gulf War parents, huge conflicts of interest exist in the federal medical assessment system, Saddam had much greater chemical and biological warcare capabiliity than previously described, VA help for the ill was cumbersome and erratic, and bizarre new illnesses are corpping up. (1995)
Tags: Brewer Hanchette CAR Urgent need seen for Gulf Illness research Contest entry 78 pgs.
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Discover examines pathologist Nir Kossovsky who belives that silicone breast implants can affect a woman's immune system and has developed a blood test to prove it. (December 1995)
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Newsweek looks at the debilitating effects of the disease Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and why the medical community was slow to take it seriously; explains that CFS is an immune-system disorder involving a virus, Nov. 12, 1990.
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Aldicarb
WHA-TV (Madison, Wis.) reports the Environmental Protection Agency was not testing certain pesticides despite evidence linking an ingredient--Aldicarb--to immune system disorders; EPA falsely stated it did not have the expertise necessary to carry out the tests, Nov. 2, 1985.
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