[CPEO-MEF] Two Leukemia clusters

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Leukemia Ties Fallon with Town in Arizona

Frank X. Mullen Jr.

RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL
8/25/2002

SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. ? This small town in the Sonoran desert has a lot in
common with Fallon, a tiny berg in the Nevada desert, but the most
compelling similarity is that both communities have a childhood leukemia cluster.

Both are located in a wide, beautiful bowl of mountains.

Both host military aircraft whose contrails sometimes make checkerboards
in a clear sky. The planes use the same JP-8 fuel.

Both have farms that make the desert bloom and are located in historic
mining districts.

Each has a long main street that is also a major highway, bristling with
signs for businesses and restaurants and motels.

And both have children suffering from leukemia at a rate that defies
national averages.

For two years, Nevada and federal investigators have put Fallon under a
microscope to find the serial killer that has infected 16 children and
left three dead.

But the similarities end there. 


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for the entire story, see
http://www.rgj.com//news/stories/html/2002/08/25/22332.php

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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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