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'Bizarre' Cluster of Severe Birth Defects Haunts Health Experts
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| 2-17-14
| Jonel Aleccia
Posted on 02/17/2014 10:44:02 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Yakima is the site of a large Indian reservation. And there is a very large population of migrant workers, both legal and illegal.
Their living conditions are on the shitty side to say the least and has not improved even with mandates from the State.
And as the article states that this was noticed 3 to 4 years ago. The Japan Nuke disaster would not be a contributing factor. Also with Hanford being so close.
What are the effects on the other communities in the area? The Tri-Cities (Kennewick, Richland, Pasco and West Richland but they still call it the Tri-Cities) has a pop of close to 200,000 (also with a large pop of legal and illegal migrant workers). Has the rate of these birth defects also risen at the same rate?
Ed
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posted on
02/17/2014 11:49:17 AM PST
by
husky ed
(FOX NEWS ALERT "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead" THIS HAS BEEN A FOX NEWS ALERT)
To: afraidfortherepublic
A result of pot smoking and other libertine behaviors after a couple of generations.
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posted on
02/17/2014 11:56:28 AM PST
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
To: Revel
Well the name of the town sounds almost Japanese. Just saying.DING! DING! DING! Most ignorant post of the day.
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posted on
02/17/2014 12:04:13 PM PST
by
Chuckster
(The longer I live the less I care about what you think.)
To: afraidfortherepublic
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posted on
02/17/2014 12:14:16 PM PST
by
proudpapa
(Scott Walker - 2016)
To: afraidfortherepublic
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posted on
02/17/2014 12:15:14 PM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: texas booster
Treated by increasing folic acid in prenatal care, and tighter controls on corn meal.
Probably some damn hippies have been buying some organic fairtrade flower with no folic acid. By the time you are pregnant it is too late. if it is not already in your diet BEFORE conception your babies are at risk.
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posted on
02/17/2014 12:55:40 PM PST
by
TalonDJ
To: proudpapa
Research has shown that there are potential links between anencephaly and exposure to molds and to pesticides,My daughter lives in apple country in Washington. After moving from Oregon, she was surprised by the amount of cancer in apple country. Nobody publicly says anything about it because $$$$$$$$.
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posted on
02/17/2014 1:06:59 PM PST
by
aimhigh
To: peeps36
“I’m not familiar with this area but I wonder if there are illegal pot farms around there?”
I know there are a hell of a lot of illegals in the Yakima area, and they and the natives do not get along much.
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posted on
02/17/2014 1:29:51 PM PST
by
ought-six
( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
To: afraidfortherepublic
Hanford, near the Columbia River, right nearby. Oregon environmentalists got Oregon’s only reactor destroyed and buried—in Washington State, across the river.
To: zlala
Oregon plant was buried there later, 1999 I think.
To: firebrand
From the test well samples that I use to see, the ground water flow from Hanford was toward the Columbia and not the Yakima River.
But I was not privy to all of their data.
Ed
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posted on
02/17/2014 2:23:44 PM PST
by
husky ed
(FOX NEWS ALERT "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead" THIS HAS BEEN A FOX NEWS ALERT)
To: husky ed
I should have stated that the
aquifer not the ground water.
Sorry brain seizure 8^(
Ed
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posted on
02/17/2014 2:26:35 PM PST
by
husky ed
(FOX NEWS ALERT "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead" THIS HAS BEEN A FOX NEWS ALERT)
To: afraidfortherepublic
Are they getting their pre-natals?
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posted on
02/17/2014 2:27:48 PM PST
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
To: afraidfortherepublic
I remember hearing about many cases of anencephaly amongst people along the Texas/Mexico border. Especially around Matamoros/Brownsville. If these migrant workers grew up around that area, that may explain it too. The majority of the cases happened on the Mexican side.
To: afraidfortherepublic
“But as of January 2013, officials with the Washington state health department and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had counted nearly two dozen cases in three years, a rate four times the national average.”
“Clusters” happen often. Especially with not very common problems. It’s easy to get concerned but consider this.
2 dozen cases in three years. 8 cases a year. Four times national average would be an additional 6 cases a year. In a 3 county area.
Averages are called average exactly because they are the best of the best and the worst of the worse. Heck somebody has to be at the bottom. Or the top.....
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posted on
02/17/2014 2:38:36 PM PST
by
saleman
To: afraidfortherepublic
To: afraidfortherepublic
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posted on
02/18/2014 6:47:41 AM PST
by
GOPJ
( America's drifting into totalitarianism because the left's exploitation of social failures.Greenfi)
To: afraidfortherepublic
Hanford was an old nuclear plant and one of the only - if NOT the only plant - that didn’t have a containment building around their reactor. The site was a disaster for years... IMHO...
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posted on
02/18/2014 6:50:48 AM PST
by
GOPJ
( America's drifting into totalitarianism because the left's exploitation of social failures.Greenfi)
To: logi_cal869
Hanford was an old nuclear plant and one of the only - if NOT the only plant - that didn’t have a containment building around their reactor in it’s early years. The site was a disaster for years... IMHO...
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posted on
02/18/2014 6:52:23 AM PST
by
GOPJ
( America's drifting into totalitarianism because the left's exploitation of social failures.Greenfi)
To: GOPJ
Right, but the old contamination, aside from future 'tank explosion scenarios', is ground-based, having leached into groundwater and moving eastward into the Columbia River and the aquifer.
The current commercial operational reactor is outputting isotopes right into an east wind; see the charts. Yakima is, ironically, in the plume shadow.
The Columbia Generating Station (former WPPSS site) is also on the Hanford 'site'.
It's amazing to me that all this data & research spans 40+ years and they're still reticent to give any credence at all to what, for some doctors & scientists, is already well-established.
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