[CPEO-BIF] Parkinson's case possible linked to TCE from Ithaca [New York] Gun Factory

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

New York Regulators Found High Levels of TCE in Kindra Bell’s Ithaca Home. They Told Her Not to Worry
Two years later, she was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. She thinks she knows why.

By Jordan Gass-Poore’
Inside Climate News
July 22, 2024

THACA, N.Y.—On the ice, life made sense. 

Kindra Bell has played ice hockey in Ithaca since she was a kid and later, as a freshman, her team brought home the Ivy League Championship for Cornell University. 

But her diagnosis, well, that didn’t make any sense to her at all. 

Bell was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in March 2016 at the age of 46, young for this type of diagnosis. 

For years, she has lived down the hill from the former Ithaca Gun Factory, a long-abandoned brownfield site poised for redevelopment that’s contaminated with trichloroethylene, or TCE, a known human carcinogen that’s been linked to an increased risk of Parkinson’s disease, among other chemicals.

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For the entire article, see
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22072024/ithaca-new-york-tce-parkinsons-disease/

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)




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