[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH: "Moms blame Laurel Bay [SC] military housing for children's leukemia"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Moms blame Laurel Bay military housing for children's leukemia
	
CBS NEWS 
January 17, 2017

Some military families believe oil tanks below military housing in South Carolina are causing cancer in their children. They say at least 15 children who lived on or near the Laurel Bay military housing community are sick with cancer. 

The Marine Corps is studying potential contamination and the tanks have since been removed.

Laurel Bay is made up of more than 1,000 homes near the Marine Corps Air Station and Parris Island bases. Some families who lived here are now asking whether there’s a relationship between where they lived and their child’s cancer, including one woman who took to the internet to alert others, reports CBS New correspondent Anna Werner. 


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For the entire story, see
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/laurel-bay-military-housing-moms-blame-oil-tanks-contamination-childrens-leukemia/

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Lenny Siegel
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