[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH: Childhood cancers at Laurel Bay Military Housing, Beaufort, SC

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Military moms fear contaminants at housing base are giving children cancer

By Diana Falzone
Fox News
January 12, 2017


The Marine Corps says it is addressing the concerns of a military mom who posted a YouTube video warning about what she claims are potential cancer risks for anyone who has resided at her family’s former military housing unit in South Carolina.

Amanda and Joshua Whatley’s daughter, Katie, was diagnosed with leukemia at the age of 6 in 2015. The family lived in the Laurel Bay Military Housing community in Beaufort, S.C., from July 2007 to November 2010, while Joshua Whatley was stationed at Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island.

Laurel Bay, an 1,100-acre community that was built in the 1950s, contains mostly single-family military housing.

In a YouTube video she posted on Jan. 7, Amanda Whatley says Katie is one of eight children she knows of who lived at Laurel Bay and have been diagnosed with cancer.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/01/12/military-moms-fear-contaminants-at-housing-base-are-giving-children-cancer.html

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