[CPEO-BIF] Parkinson's cluster at MEW Superfund Study Area

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[This article relates to the MEW Superfund Study Area in Mountain View,
a model for the Superfund Redevelopment Initiative. - LS]

Mountain View Voice
Friday, November 22, 2002 

Residents near old semiconductor plant worry about toxic exposure 

By Faiza Hasan 

When three of Lori Hand's neighbors became sick with Parkinson's
disease, she thought that it was a strange coincidence. But when she
discovered that two more people on her block had Parkinson's, she
started to get worried. 

"I thought it was curious that everyone in the neighborhood was becoming
sick with Parkinson's," she said. Hand has lived on Walker Drive on
Whisman Road, opposite the old Fairchild Semiconductor plant, for 25
years. Her neighbors had been there longer, since the 1950s, before the
plant was built. 

Hand had read newspaper articles about chemical contamination and
cleanup around the Fairchild plant, and was concerned that it might be
behind the apparent cluster of illnesses. 

Scientists say that no single chemical is known to cause Parkinson's --
a degenerative brain disease -- and that Mountain View residents don't
seem to be at imminent risk of illness. But recent research indicates
that Hand might have cause for worry, since studies show that TCE -- a
toxic solvent released by the Fairchild plant -- might, over decades of
exposure, contribute to a higher risk of Parkinson's disease.  

...


For the entire article, see
http://www.mv-voice.com/thisweek/2002_11_22.resprknsn.html

See also http://www.mv-voice.com/home.html and scroll down to "Chemical
Risks" for related articles in the same issue.

-- 


Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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