[CPEO-MEF] Spring Valley illnesses

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Spring Valley sick blame chemicals in WWI dumping


By Jon Ward
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
November 14, 2004

A survey of the incidence of disease among residents of Spring Valley is
renewing questions about whether the Army's chemical-weapons tests in
the Northwest neighborhood during World War I led to later health problems.

The yearlong, unscientific survey by the Northwest Current, a weekly
newspaper, collected health data from 345 Spring Valley households. It
found 131 current or former residents with chronic ? and sometimes rare
and life-threatening ? diseases.

Some residents say they believe their illnesses are linked directly to
long-term exposure to chemicals that contaminated the soil or were
buried after World War I ended in 1918.

"I'm absolutely and totally convinced it came from the chemicals," said
Geza Teleki, 60, who lived in Spring Valley for most of the period 1974
to 2002 and five years ago developed diabetes, hypothyroidism, and
kidney, colon and heart disease.
...

for the entire article, see
http://www.washingtontimes.com/metro/20041114-121810-5745r.htm 

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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
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