[CPEO-MEF] Camp Lejeune (NC) health problems

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Family attributed health problems to bad luck, but now think Lejeune's 
water the source

By Amanda Greene
Wilmington Star-News (NC)
August 27, 2007

Joan Lewis had a miscarriage in 1970.
Her eldest son, Eddie Lewis, was born in 1971 with two fused vertebrae, 
leaving him in chronic pain.

Her firstborn, Mariema Lewis, pushed out a baseball-sized uterine tumor 
while giving birth to her own daughter in 1999.

That same year, Joan's third daughter, Tisha Schiavone, came home early 
from work with severe cramps. Taken to the hospital, she underwent 
emergency surgery to have 17 non-cancerous uterine tumors - some as 
large as grapefruits - removed.

The Wilmington family has had its share of seemingly unexplained medical 
woes. Joan, a mother of five and the 62-year-old matriarch of the 
family, said "one or two people in the family having health issues is 
usual," but not the majority.

What the children have in common: All three were born, conceived or 
spent their early years at Camp Lejeune, a Marine Corps base in 
Jacksonville, during the 30 years that government health experts believe 
the public water supply was contaminated with dry-cleaning solvents and 
industrial degreasers.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/article/20070827/NEWS/708270314/-1/State

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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>
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