Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Study links water pollution to cancer in Macomb County Michigan

February 20, 2008 - An unreleased federal report asserts a link between industrial pollution in the Clinton and St. Clair rivers and high cancer rates among the Macomb County population.

The 400-page document prepared for the Centers for Disease Control studied 26 pollution hot spots across the Great Lakes and compared the prevalence of chemical contaminants in the waterways with an array of health problems: infant mortality, coronary heart disease, low birth weight babies and several types of cancer.

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