Sunday, February 7, 2010

In a California Town, Birth Defects, Deaths and Questions

In a California Town, Birth Defects, Deaths and Questions
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/07/us/07kettleman.html

"State and federal officials are scrambling to determine what caused the deaths of three children in this Central California farming town, which shares a ZIP code with the largest hazardous waste treatment site west of the Mississippi.

Over a 15-month period in 2007 and 2008, six children of mothers from Kettleman City were born with serious birth defects, including cleft palates, deformities and brain damage. Half of those infants subsequently died."

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