Re[3]: News article -Reply

[elizabeth_algutifan@wssrap-host.wssrap.com]

     The Centers for Disease Control has a good web site (www.cdc.gov).  
     You can do a search by keywords separated by commas (e.g., farmers, 
     epidemiology, etc.) Also look under NIOSH because it seems they have 
     done many of the relevant studies you're interested in.  
     
     Speaking of scare stories, our local St. Louis news-talk AM radio 
     station mentioned a story this morning about Hanford having to poison 
     armies of red ants due to their burrowing into an area that had been 
     radiologically contaminated by leaking pipes.  There were the usual 
     comments like, "Do you think the ants glow in the dark? Maybe if you 
     were bitten by one of those ants you would glow in the dark!" I guess 
     the glow-in-the-dark misunderstanding will endure forever.
     
     Elizabeth Algutifan
     WSSRAP
     Elizabeth_Algutifan@wssrap-host.wssrap.com
     


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Author:  <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu> at Internet-Mail
Date:    9/30/98 10:41 AM


To add to Ruth's statement, we had a piece about the Tennessean
run on all of our local TV stations where they paraded a few of our 
local, well-known victims.
     
These folks make their primary living through agriculture which, I 
would hypothesize, would provide ample opportunity for significant 
exposures to pesticides and herbicides.
     
My question is this:  Does anyone know of any epidemiological 
studies that have been done on farming and ranching populations 
wherein chemical exposures were investigated for causal links to 
specific diseases?
     
We know what their rad exposures have been.... essentially 
nothing.
     
Any info would be appreciated!
v/r
Michael
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