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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCancer map may show enormous St. Louis cluster
http://www.ksdk.com/news/article/358520/70/Cancer-map-may-show-enormous-St-Louis-cluster--"About two years ago, Janell Wright and several of her class of '88 McCluer North High School friends started wondering why so many of their peers were battling cancer.
"Where it got to be suspicious is when we had two friends diagnosed within a couple of months of each other with appendix cancer. And both people were told that is a one in a million cancer," said Wright.
Wright, an accountant and former auditor, started collecting data from her classmates. Soon, peers from neighboring schools reached out too."
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Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)in a four square mile area, three cases of conjoined twins,
in addition to the cancers.
it burns me up that corporate disregard has caused so
much poisoning of our world.
RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)Read a report a few weeks ago about how in the early days of nuke power an area around St. Louis was a dumping ground for watery nuke waste. Seems they just dumped it on the ground and let it spread. Like the Japanese are doing at Fukushima >>> into the Pacific.
marybourg
(12,631 posts)2 of my friends grew up in next-door houses backing on wetlands, during WWII and the Cold War. They both died of chest cancers at 48. Just co-incidence? I tend to think not.
a kennedy
(29,672 posts)NOT.
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)are there elevated radiation levels?
Or is this possibly a chemical contamination issue?
Sid
RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)Cool, didn't know that, Sid. Tell us how easy radiation is to detect. Can you see it? Taste it?
Rex
(65,616 posts)turns your smart phone into a geiger counter!
RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)No, Sid said it was easy, but having an android is not easy, so I figure Sid will be here soon to let us know how easy it is, right, Sid?
Rex
(65,616 posts)No, but Sid does sound like some kewl app you could download!
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)Take a balloon, blow it up and then rub it on your head! Next see if it sticks to a wall. If it sticks, then that is normal. If it does not stick (and humidity can play a factor in this) then run! It should always cling to a wall, unless there is a lot of radiation close by.
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Badges, dosimeters, counters. Any number of pieces of equipment can be used to detect radiation.
Sid
bvar22
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MineralMan
(146,317 posts)It's not proper in its ingredients list, and causes horrible illnesses.
If not that, it's the habit of eating "crispy snoots," also found only there.
:tongueincheek:
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)It's the Provel cheese. That's right, they have their own kind of cheese that they, and they alone, put on pizza and other Italian food.
Or could it be the St. Pauls? Those are a kind of egg foo yung sandwich found only in STL Chinese restaurants.
Or the frozen custard?
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)Again, since there's no way to know what might be causing a cancer cluster, I'm just fooling around.
St. Pauls? I live in St. Paul, and we don't eat any nasty things like that here. Just lutefisk.
pintobean
(18,101 posts)I thought it would be obvious.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)See, we always threw them back because we figured since they were fucking glowing we PROBABLY shouldn't eat it
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)back here in St. Paul. A couple of years ago, I caught a 35 lb. channel catfish from the public dock in downtown St. Paul. There were about a dozen tourists out on the dock at the time. Boy, were they surprised! At least three of them asked, "Will you eat it?" "Nope," I said. It's too small. I'll release it so it can grow up."
MadHound
(34,179 posts)There is a company in St. Louis, long time producer of radiopharmaceuticals, that has essentially a built in budget for NRC fines, because they violate NRC rules that frequently.
johnnyreb
(915 posts)Sep 25, 2012
http://www.ksdk.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=339573
bigtree
(85,998 posts)Berlum
(7,044 posts)But of course there could not possibly be a connection...
pstokely
(10,528 posts)nt