[CPEO-MEF] Kelly Air Force Base (TX) birth defects

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Birth-defects/Kelly investigation uncovers additional troubling info


Roddy Stinson
San Antonio Express-News (TX)
October 28, 2007

On the Sleuthing Trail ...

CASE: In a Sept. 27 column - "Kelly-sleuthing trail leads to low-weight, 
heart-damaged babies" - I responded to a mother who asked if my 
years-long investigation of environmental contamination at former Kelly 
AFB and in the surrounding neighborhoods had turned up any information 
related to "children with disabilities."

After citing information from federal studies produced by the Agency for 
Toxic Substances and Disease Registry - which found an "excess of 
reported cases of heart and circulatory system-related defects for ZIP 
code 78237" - I wrote:

"To my knowledge, no further birth-defect research was conducted in ZIP 
code 78237 by federal, state or local agencies."

Subsequent inquiries have produced additional "knowledge," including a 
bit of good news and some troubling new information.

...

For the entire column, see
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA102807.01B.rstinson.32b3b05.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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