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Search results for "Lupus" ...
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A medical mystery in Morgan City
WWL-TV's Eyewitness News reports on "an unusually high number of people suffering from auto-immune diseases in the Morgan City vicinity." The investigation reveals that the ailments common in the area - scleroderma, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and other tissue-transforming illnesses - might have been caused by environmental problems as well as genetic factors. Morgan City is an oil town with several industrial plants and five superfund waste sites, the program reports. Health officials have discovered a similar concentration of auto-immune diseases in Southern Boston as well. Experts are wary of linking the disease clusters to environmental factors only.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; superfund; hazardous waste; toxins; Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); environment; health; pollution; medicine
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Mystery Illness
KENS-TV investigates the astronomical number of people diagnosed with neuromuscular diseases in Huntsville, Texas. KENS-TV discovers that the diseases stem from a secret germ warfare experiment the U.S. government performed at the Huntsville prison in the 1970s.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; Huntsville; Texas; neuromuscular diseases germ warfare; health; prison; death; Lou Gehrig's; Lupus
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Arizona Daily Star uncovers evidence that TCE, a probable carcinogen, may have caused 500 cases of cancer and lupus in a Tucson neighborhood through its water supply; shows how health officials have ignored the problem for years, May 19 - 26, 1985.
Tags: AZ TCE