[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH: Randy White "calls attention to Fort Detrick [MD] contamination"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

A death from cancer, and a search for answers
Frederick native calls attention to Fort Detrick contamination

By Matthew Hay Brown and Timothy B. Wheeler
Baltimore Sun (MD)
October 8, 2011

FREDERICK - Randy White had just buried a daughter, dead at 30 with a  
brain tumor. Now his other daughter had been diagnosed with growths  
in her abdomen.

When doctors told White in 2009 that their conditions were likely  
caused by something in their environment, the Frederick native  
thought of Fort Detrick. His children had grown up near the Army base.



Detrick was home to the nation's biological weapons program from the  
1940s through the 1960s. It remains a key center for medical research.



"Anybody that lives in Frederick knows all the rumors," White says.  
"It's kind of like, 'Fort Detrick, they created anthrax, we knew  
that, smallpox â' It just clicked for me."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-fort-detrick- 
contamination-20111008,0,1673050.story

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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