[ RadSafe ] State of Missouri pursuing help for cancer-afflicted victims of Cold Water Creek radiation

[Roger Helbig]

Seems like barrels of Uranium are unlikely to have caused cancer
clusters like are being claimed for Cold Water Creek?  Certainly doubt
that radiation from this Uranium caused these cancers.  Does anyone
know anything more about Cold Water Creek?

Roger Helbig
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Christina MacPherson posted: "Radiation survivors receive government
help  http://www.ksdk.com/story/news/local/2014/09/26/cold-water-creek-radiation-government-help/16250253/
 ST. LOUIS COUNTY - A group of classmates, who are losing friends
every day to radiation at Cold Water Creek,"
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State of Missouri pursuing help for cancer-afflicted victims of Cold
Water Creek radiation

by Christina MacPherson

Radiation survivors receive government help
http://www.ksdk.com/story/news/local/2014/09/26/cold-water-creek-radiation-government-help/16250253/
 ST. LOUIS COUNTY - A group of classmates, who are losing friends
every day to radiation at Cold Water Creek, are getting the news
they've been fighting for after three years.

The state of Missouri is asking the Federal Government for help.

The state wants the Centers for Disease Control, The Environmental
Protection Agency, and the Army Corps of Engineers to send money and
specialized resources to the survivors and people dying from
radiation.

Carl Chappell's 43-year-old son has appendix cancer. The cancer
effects about one in a million, but it's showing up in many of
Chappell's son's high school classmates. Chappell's son used to play
in the contributory of Coldwater Creek, near his Florissant home.

Radioactive materials from barrels of uranium from Mallinckrodt's
Storage Facilities started seeping into Cold Water Creek. The uranium
was used to make the first atomic bombs.

Janell Wright, a former McCluer Graduate, wanted to know why so many
of her classmates were getting rare cancers. She and other classmates
asked the state to test study the area. The results showed no elevated
levels of cancer. Wright knew the study was flawed.

Wright and her friends asked the head of the ST. Louis County Health
Department, Dr Dolores Gunn, and her deputy, Dr. Faisal Khan, to help.
Gunn and Khan gave the state more zip codes and a different way to
test the cancers. This time the results were different.

"They showed elevated levels of leukemia in adults and brain cancer in
childrenbetween 1996-2011 in zip codes in and around Cold Water Creek
area," Dr. Khan said.

Khan said the cancers could be attributed to exposure to radiation.

The county is now expanding its research and study in North County,
and into other diseases possibly caused by radiation. It's the only
county in the state putting effort in the research. It could set a
precedent for other communities like Westlake.

Chappell is hoping the federal government will get involved. His son
is still living with appendix cancer, but his father, a Mallinckrodt
employee for years with a direct radiation exposure, died from renal
cancer.

Chappell wants Cold Water Creek to stop taking any more lives.

Christina MacPherson | September 27, 2014 at 10:33 am | Categories:
health, USA | URL: http://wp.me/phgse-i4s

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