Bush Administration Supressing CDC Report on Major Health Risks of Great Lakes

jm — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:00:32 +0000

The Center for Public Integrity has obtained a draft report of a federal study of the health risks resulting from the contamination of the Great Lakes which was scheduled for release last summer. A division of the Center for Disease Control has spend three years researching and come up with extremely alarming data that show that about nine million people who live in several regions of the Great Lakes are at significantly elevated risk of cancer and birth defects, owing to the concentrations of lethal chemicals like dioxin, lead, mercury, pesticides such as DDT, and PCBs in the water supply. The report was pulled from release days before the scheduled publication date, and no information is available about if and when it will now be published. Whistleblowers within the organization claim that it is being suppressed for political reasons, given the great danger that it has identified to residents of populous cities like Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland and Milwaukee.

Great Lakes Danger Zones? (Center for Public Integrity)

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Bush Administration Supressing CDC Report on Major Health Risks of Great Lakes