[CPEO-MEF] Further studies at Wyle Labs, Norco, CA

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Link to Wyle missing in rare illness
We don't know what it is, but there's definitely a problem'

By Andrea Bennett
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (CA)
October 21, 2006

NORCO - State officials and members of a community group concerned about 
cleanup efforts at a former munitions testing site have yet to find a 
definitive link between contaminants there and a second case of a rare 
disease.

Elena Esparza, 21, a Norco High School graduate, was diagnosed with 
acute myelogenous leukemia, or AML, which results from acquired genetic 
damage to the DNA.

Even though health officials say it is unlikely that any contaminants 
from the Wyle Laboratories' site contribute to the leukemia - and such a 
relation would be impossible to prove - many are still skeptical.

"There's a problem," said the group's chairwoman, Celeste Tittle, at 
Thursday's Community Advisory Group meeting. "We don't know what it is, 
but there's definitely a problem."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_4527245

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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