[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, VOCs: "Stricken Vets Fight VA Over Camp Lejeune [NC] Water Poisoning"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Stricken Vets Fight VA Over Camp Lejeune Water Poisoning


by Cristina Corbin
Fox News 
December 12, 2015 

Joseph "Danny" Zambito was 18 when he trained as a Marine in 1964 at Camp Lejeune, where he -- like one million others at the base -- was exposed to cancer-causing chemicals in one of the worst water contamination cases in US history, spanning more than three decades.

Zambito, now 70, lost both kidneys and his bladder to cancer, but the Florida man said he hasn't received a single disability benefit from the Department of Veterans Affairs -- whose anonymous panel of "subject matter experts" renders medical opinions on veterans' claims their diseases were caused by toxic drinking water at the North Carolina military training base.

"It makes me feel very angry," said Zambito, who undergoes dialysis four times a week at a center in Zephyrhills. "They're dragging their feet on this and giving me the runaround."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2015/12/12/stricken-vets-fight-va-over-camp-lejeune-water-poisoning.html

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