Green | February 10, 2008 | 5 comments

Great Lakes: Danger Zone: The Report The CDC Didn't Want You To See

source: http://www.publicintegrity.org/GreatLakes/index.htm

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The information in this report is truly a public service. Please read it and pass it on.This is unconscienable.///////From the link:////// For more than seven months, the nation’s top public health agency has blocked the publication of an exhaustive federal study of environmental hazards in the eight Great Lakes states, reportedly because it contains such potentially “alarming information” as evidence of elevated infant mortality and cancer rates.////////Researchers found low birth weights, elevated rates of infant mortality and premature births, and elevated death rates from breast cancer, colon cancer, and lung cancer.The 400-plus-page study, Public Health Implications of Hazardous Substances in the Twenty-Six U.S. Great Lakes Areas of Concern, was undertaken by a division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at the request of the International Joint Commission, an independent bilateral organization that advises the U.S. and Canadian governments on the use and quality of boundary waters between the two countries. The study was originally scheduled for release in July 2007 by the IJC and the CDC’s Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR).////////The Center for Public Integrity has obtained the study, which warns that more than nine million people who live in the more than two dozen “areas of concern”—including such major metropolitan areas as Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, and Milwaukee—may face elevated health risks from being exposed to dioxin, PCBs, pesticides, lead, mercury, or six other hazardous pollutants.///////In many of the geographic areas studied, researchers found low birth weights, elevated rates of infant mortality and premature births, and elevated death rates from breast cancer, colon cancer, and lung cancer./////end of excerpt.

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5 comments // Great Lakes: Danger Zone: The Report The CDC Didn't Want You To See

  • resolute
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      resolute  

    • "And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto the servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear they name, small and great; and shouldest DESTROY them which DESTROY the earth." Revelation 11:18

      "Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand." Revelation 1:3

    • 4 years ago
  • echoz
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      echoz  

    • echoz echoing in echoz head "Our country has turned into a dump for corporate America..."

      i didn't know what superfund was so i googled and read "Superfund is the federal government's program to clean up the nation's uncontrolled hazardous waste sites."

      then i thought...wait! you mean we have "uncontrolled hazardous waste sites"??? it really IS worse than i even knew!

    • 4 years ago
  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  

    • I don't know why this isn't on every paper or on every station. It is reprehensible. I am glad you now have this information. Please pass it on to all you know. I suspect it isn't just the Chicago area in this country that has this happening either. Our country has turned into a waste dump for corporate America. We need to fund the superfund again and stop this self policing BS and hold these people accountable for their actions! And we wonder why healthcare is so expensive in this country?

    • 4 years ago
  • JoQ
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      JoQ  

    • OMG! How did they think they could get away with keeping this under wraps? Why isn't it making every headline in the newspapers? I have family in Chicago and Milwaukee. I'll be passing this along to them. Thanks Janfor Gore.

    • 4 years ago
  • echoz
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      echoz  

    • http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-75-1390/science_technology/great_lakes_pollution/

      it's interesting to note that the CBC claims the Great Lakes account for 1/3 of the drinking water for all Canadians and 1/7 of the drinking water for all Americans... the CBC has a few more details on the Lakes' pollution problems on a nice chronological timeline going back to 1960...

      dam shame these Lakes have been used as toxic waste sites...incredibly unconscienable, as you say. probably the suppression of the CDC report is just an effort to stave off further public accountability; albeit at very high costs.

    • 4 years ago
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