[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, HEALTH: "Tainted water at Camp Lejeune [NC] tied to faster Parkinson’s progression"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Tainted water at Camp Lejeune tied to faster Parkinson’s progression
Risk more than twice as high for exposed Marine, Navy personnel at base


by Margarida Maia
Parkinson's News Today
July 17, 2024

U.S. Marine Corps and Navy personnel exposed to trichloroethylene (TCE) and other industrial chemicals in drinking water at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina face greater than twice the risk of experiencing accelerated Parkinson’s disease progression than individuals who were not exposed, a new study found.

These findings add to those from a study published last year that showed that service members who lived at Camp Lejeune had a 70% higher risk of Parkinson’s compared with those stationed at a military base in California where the drinking water was not contaminated. That study noted contamination from the Marine Corps base — where TCE levels were as much as 70 times higher than that currently considered acceptable — dated as far back as the 1950s.

Now, the researchers here concluded that “[Parkinson’s] progression may be faster in persons exposed to trichloroethylene and other [contaminents] in water [at the base] decades earlier.”

The study, “Parkinson’s Disease Progression and Exposure to Contaminated Water at Camp Lejeune,” was published in the journal Movement Disorders. It was funded by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

…

For the entire article, see
https://parkinsonsnewstoday.com/news/tainted-camp-lejeune-water-tied-faster-parkinsons-progression/

For the full study, go to
https://movementdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mds.29922


—

Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)






—

Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)




_______________________________________________
Military mailing list
Military@lists.cpeo.org
http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org