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FEMA Exposed. Katrina Victims Neglected. (part 2) Jan. 2008This forum post is dated 06/20/10. If you feel it is old or outdated, please follow up with a question or comment and someone may be able to update it, or reply with newer information if you have it. Mississippi - Medical Travel
| FEMA Exposed. Katrina Victims Neglected. (part 2) Jan. 2008 Jan. 29, 2008. Rep. Nick Lampson, D-Texas, said Tuesday that Federal Emergency Management Agency tried to control the outcome of a scientific study on formaldehyde in trailers used to house victims of Hurricane Katrina. "Someone from one of the agencies, the CDC, came to our committee and reported that he had information that indicated that good science wasn't followed when a decision was made to allow people to live in basically travel trailers that were not designed to be lived in, " said Lampson, chairman of the Energy and Environment Subcommittee of the House Committee on Science and Technology. In addition, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee -- Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, D-Mississippi -- cited medical experts who said prolonged exposure to high levels of formaldehyde can cause ailments ranging from respiratory irritation to cancer. The committee recently obtained internal CDC e-mail which showed that "despite the efforts of CDC professionals to bring these health risks to the public's attention, those concerns were thwarted by CDC leadership for roughly eight months, " Thompson said. Source: edition.cnn.com |
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