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pstokely

(10,528 posts)
Fri Feb 22, 2013, 02:19 PM Feb 2013

Cancer 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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Cancer map may show enormous St. Louis cluster (Original Post) pstokely Feb 2013 OP
wow Voice for Peace Feb 2013 #1
Radioactive RobertEarl Feb 2013 #2
I'm sure this is not unique. In Queens, in N.Y. marybourg Feb 2013 #3
Oh yah, gotta love that nuclear power and all the ramifications of it..... a kennedy Feb 2013 #4
Radiation isn't something that can be hidden, and is pretty easy to detect... SidDithers Feb 2013 #5
Pretty easy to detect? RobertEarl Feb 2013 #7
Some people already have the device on their Android phone Rex Feb 2013 #11
So, is Sid an android phone? Just kidding, Sid. RobertEarl Feb 2013 #12
"Sid an android phone" Rex Feb 2013 #21
Cool. Hadn't seen that one before... SidDithers Feb 2013 #19
Here is a strange one. Rex Feb 2013 #20
Seriously?... SidDithers Feb 2013 #14
I suspect that this is (will be) true of every industrial/urban area. bvar22 Feb 2013 #6
The reason is St. Louis Barbecue Sauce. MineralMan Feb 2013 #8
Nonsense. KamaAina Feb 2013 #13
Musta been sumthin they ate, for sure. MineralMan Feb 2013 #16
Toasted ravioli pintobean Feb 2013 #18
No, it's from people actually eating the catfish they catch out of the Mississippi snooper2 Feb 2013 #22
Hmm...I knew there was a reason I toss them MineralMan Feb 2013 #23
Not surprising, MadHound Feb 2013 #9
A September 2012 story from same news channel: johnnyreb Feb 2013 #10
good catch bigtree Feb 2013 #15
St. Louis = home of Monsanto, Inc. Berlum Feb 2013 #17
actually, Mosanto wasn't the polluter this time pstokely Feb 2013 #24
 

Voice for Peace

(13,141 posts)
1. wow
Fri Feb 22, 2013, 02:29 PM
Feb 2013

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)
2. Radioactive
Fri Feb 22, 2013, 02:29 PM
Feb 2013

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)
3. I'm sure this is not unique. In Queens, in N.Y.
Fri Feb 22, 2013, 02:33 PM
Feb 2013

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.

SidDithers

(44,228 posts)
5. Radiation isn't something that can be hidden, and is pretty easy to detect...
Fri Feb 22, 2013, 02:42 PM
Feb 2013

are there elevated radiation levels?

Or is this possibly a chemical contamination issue?

Sid

 

RobertEarl

(13,685 posts)
7. Pretty easy to detect?
Fri Feb 22, 2013, 03:41 PM
Feb 2013

Cool, didn't know that, Sid. Tell us how easy radiation is to detect. Can you see it? Taste it?

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
11. Some people already have the device on their Android phone
Fri Feb 22, 2013, 03:51 PM
Feb 2013

turns your smart phone into a geiger counter!

 

RobertEarl

(13,685 posts)
12. So, is Sid an android phone? Just kidding, Sid.
Fri Feb 22, 2013, 03:58 PM
Feb 2013

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)
20. Here is a strange one.
Fri Feb 22, 2013, 04:39 PM
Feb 2013

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.

MineralMan

(146,317 posts)
8. The reason is St. Louis Barbecue Sauce.
Fri Feb 22, 2013, 03:47 PM
Feb 2013

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)
13. Nonsense.
Fri Feb 22, 2013, 04:02 PM
Feb 2013

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)
16. Musta been sumthin they ate, for sure.
Fri Feb 22, 2013, 04:11 PM
Feb 2013

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.

 

snooper2

(30,151 posts)
22. No, it's from people actually eating the catfish they catch out of the Mississippi
Fri Feb 22, 2013, 04:42 PM
Feb 2013

See, we always threw them back because we figured since they were fucking glowing we PROBABLY shouldn't eat it

MineralMan

(146,317 posts)
23. Hmm...I knew there was a reason I toss them
Fri Feb 22, 2013, 04:45 PM
Feb 2013

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)
9. Not surprising,
Fri Feb 22, 2013, 03:47 PM
Feb 2013

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.

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