[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, PFCs, CLOSURE: "Did Wurtsmith Air Force Base []MI] cause health woes?"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Did Wurtsmith Air Force Base cause health woes?

by Keith Matheny
Detroit Free Press (MI)
April 16, 2016

OSCODA - For years, Tammy Dumaresq and her family spent time at a family cabin on Alvin Road, about 2 miles from the now-shuttered Wurtsmith Air Force Base, swimming nearby in the pond created by the Foote Dam.

In 1991, Dumaresq and her family moved to Oscoda, just a few miles from picturesque Lake Huron.

"That was part of the reason to come to town, because the house values dropped after the base closure and made it so affordable," she said.

Both Dumaresq's son, who was a year old  when they moved to the area, and a daughter born in 1997, were later diagnosed with problems with their thyroids, glands in the neck that secrete important hormones related to growth and metabolism. Dumaresq said her daughter was diagnosed with Hashimoto's disease, an autoimmune disorder causing chronic inflammation and ultimate failure of the thyroid gland.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2016/04/16/wurtsmith-air-base-pollution-health/83040138/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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