Does anyone on ATS live in one of these counties?

If so, do you know anyone who is sick? Here are the counties:

Arkansas: Location: Prairie Grove,
Washington County
Disease: Testicular cancer (which means a cluster of people have contracted this illness.)

California:
Location: Oroville, Butte County
Disease: Pancreatic cancer

Location: Kettleman City, Kings County
Disease: Birth defects


Location: Montecito, Santa Barbara County
Disease: Childhood leukemia and lymphoma

Location: Earlimart, Tulare County
Disease: Childhood cancer

Location: Neighborhoods around Santa Susana Field Laboratory, Los Angeles & Ventura Counties
Disease: thyroid and bladder cancer


Location: McFarland, Kern County
Disease: Childhood cancer

Location: Rosamond, Kern County
Disease: Brain, kidney, and muscle cancers

Location: Carlsbad, San Diego County
Disease: Childhood cancer

Location: Hinkley, San Bernardino County*
Disease: Breast cancer, hodgkin's disease,
miscarriages and spinal deterioration*


Delaware:
Location: Lower Christiana, New Castle County
Disease: Lung and all cancers

Location: Upper Christiana, New Castle County
Disease: Prostate cancer

Location: Central Pencader, New Castle County
Disease: All cancer


Location: Middletown-Odessa, New Castle County
Disease: Colorectal cancer


Location: Wilmington, New Castle County
Disease: All cancer, lung and prostate cancer

Location: New Castle, New Castle County
Disease: All cancer, lung and prostate cancer

Location: Kenton, Kent County
Disease: All cancer

Florida:

Location: Millsboro, Sussex County
Disease: Lung Cancer

Location: Loxahatchee (Acreage), Palm Beach County
Disease: Brain cancer


Location: Immokalee, Collier County
Disease: Birth defects


Location: Tallevast, Manatee County
Disease: Cancer


Louisiana:

Location: New Orleans, Orleans Parish
Disease: Breast cancer


Location: Amelia, St. Mary Parish
Disease: Neuroblastoma


Location: Coteau, Iberia Parish
Disease: Childhood leukemia

*Location: Mossville, Calcasieu Parish
Disease: Various


Michigan:

Location: Midland, Saginaw, and Bay Counties
Disease: Breast Cancer


Location: White Lake, Muskegon County
Disease: Cancers

Missouri:

Location: Midland, Saginaw, and Bay Counties
Disease: Breast Cancer

Location: White Lake, Muskegon County
Disease: Cancers

Montana:
Location: Libby, Lincoln County
Disease: Respiratory diseases

North Carolina:

Location: Bynum, Chatham County
Disease: Various cancers

Location: Camp Lejeune, Onslow County
Disease: Birth defects, childhood cancer, and male breast cancer

Ohio:

Location: Clyde, Sandusky County
Disease: Childhood cancer

Location: Wellington, Lorain County

Disease: Multiple sclerosis

Location: Marysville, Union County
Disease: Leukemia

Location: Marion, Marion County
Disease: Leukemia

Location:Middletown, Butler County
Disease: Brain cancer

Pennsylvania:

Location: Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County
Disease: Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and lupus


Location: Schuylkill, Carbon and Luzerne Counties
Disease: Polycythemia vera

Tennessee:

Location: Dickson, Dickson County
Disease: Oral cleft birth defects

Texas:

Location: El Paso, El Paso County
Disease: Multiple sclerosis

Location: Houston, Harris County
Disease: Childhood leukemia

Location: Midlothian, Ellis County
Disease: Birth defects

Location: Nueces County
Disease: Birth defects

Location: San Antonio, Bexar County
Disease: Liver cancer

Mods: Thought I posted this in current events. Please move if you feel it is in the wrong place!

I'm familiar with the Kettleman City, Earlimart, McFarland, and Hinkley CA cancer clusters. The rest I'm not surprised. The first three are in the same geographical area (Central Valley or San Joaquin Valley, as it goes by both names in the news), with KC having the added distinction of the hazardous waste dump.

Undisturbed, the Earth doesn't offer much by way of cancer causing agents. When humans mine, refine/use certain products (such as coal or oil), or develop chemicals for widespread use (such as farm chemicals), or must find places to dispose of toxic chemicals/products, then we have problems.

When a friend developed a lymphoma cancer years ago, her oncologist used the term "insult" to describe the effects of our environment on our health. The more "insults" from outside our body, as from the above, the more likely cancer would occur. It seems our body's natural immune system breaks down/can no longer handle the insults.

Interestingly enough, I can remember when the McF case hit the news, it was said at the time, that homeowners who use chemicals on their lawns also had higher increases of childhood cancers. Maybe this was a way to exculpate the farmers whose farm workers were exposed to highly toxic chemicals.

Whenever I hear, such as the current radiation reports from the Japanese crisis or with pesticide use, news stories talk about "it's only" or "it's only this one product", I think back to the barrage of insults the human body takes/accumulates and that, no, a child/adult doesn't get JUST THAT ONE INSULT. If that were all, then, yes, the toxicity wouldn't matter (much) to individual or public health.

We can applaud all we want about cancer "cures", but maybe it would be better if we stop adding insult to insult. Maybe that is no longer possible at this stage of human society. Maybe our only resource is to acknowledge that cancers/other health effects of toxicity-pollution will increase and continue to research ways to alleviate/cure those effects.

A woman my age, who was a child when domestic nuclear testing was done and who was witness to the fallout, years later as a younger adult developed uterine cancer. She never thought about maybe a connection to what happened to her as a child and her adult cancer. Maybe there's no direct link, but, again, her childhood exposure was a pretty good insult.

well I live in ohio, in one of these clusters, and it's true, there is a very high rate of MS here... thing is, I've been diagnosed with late stage chronic lyme disease, which they are finding to actually be a trigger for MS, and ALS and RA, well over 200 things actually, makes me wonder if our docs are that ignorant...

in fact, my doc laughed at me when I brought up lyme disease, telling me we don't have it here...it's amazing ticks, fleas, mosquotos, dust mites that are all infected know to stop at our borders! wow! So I had to go off to PA for treatment for 2 years! Every month, driving to PA because the ignorance.

There's definitly something going on, I'm not totally sure what it is, but I am really thinking theres some truth to all the little conspiracy theories going on surrounding it

I live in the Central Valley of California. I know personally that this is true. Members of our family are sick often, some still battling cancer and diabetes, while others have passed. I used to be in the field so to speak, while now I do office work for our legal system. Many cases in Kern, Kettleman, Tulare etc. have come to our local courts, while paid "specialists" so-call "debunk" these cases in court. Then proceed to pay damages. We here have been discussing this matter for a long time, only to be glazed-over in the news, if it is covered at all. Thanks for showing us we are not alone, and hopefully we can do something about it for our children; Which are being born with a high-percentage of cleft palate problems around the Kettleman area. Still being fought to this day, and google it and see when it started. Disgusting!

Location: Wilmington, New Castle County
Disease: All cancer, lung and prostate cancer

That's where I live!

My father has prostate cancer, as do three other acquaintances I know off-hand who live/have lived in the area (at least two of which work for DuPont). I know someone else who recently passed away from pancreatic cancer, and I've known a couple with lung cancers... The list goes on and on.

I should probably move.

there is another type of cluster and that is occupational clusters.

i have Sarcoidosis and there are three main occupational clusters for Sarcoidosis.

Medical field workers nurses, medical lab workers. EMTs.

Firefighters (may be due to there EMS work or toxins.)

Navy sailors or navy veterans,
this points to a possible infectious source
(i have sarcoidosis and have worked in all three)

There are other groups that get sarcoidosis there is a couple of ethnic clusters and this makes it look like a genetic source. (blacks and Scandinavians )

But then you have a lot of cases in the southeast US that don't fit the above clusters that may be linked to other causes.

Even location type clusters can be misleading as some ethnic groups tend to cluster in some parts of the US and if its genetic these areas may miss lead it to look like toxic clusters.

And there is one other cluster that is NY 9/11 workers.