[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, CLOSURE: Biomonitoring at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Is Hunters Point sick? Meet the doctor screening residents for toxins in S.F.’s biggest development battle


By Lauren Hepler
San Francisco Chronicle (CA)
January 5, 2022

Ahimsa Porter Sumchai is a physician, but her Bayview clinic looks more like a detective’s office.

Color-coded maps of the nearby Hunters Point Naval Shipyard are the key to her investigation into the lives and deaths of people like her dad, George Donald Porter. The former longshoreman died of lung disease in 1992. His death, his family alleged in a lawsuit that was later settled, stemmed from exposure to asbestos at the old shipyard.

Today, Sumchai uses brightly colored pins to map other potentially hazardous chemicals that she detects in people who live and work near the shipyard: yellow for uranium, green for cesium, white for strontium and so on. A second map charts illnesses reported by some of her volunteers, from breast cancer to lung disease to brain tumors.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/Is-Hunters-Point-sick-Meet-the-doctor-screening-16749502.php

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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