At Least 7 CDC Investigators Got Sick Studying “Possible” Health Impacts of Ohio Train Derailment
The CDC has revealed that multiple investigators in East Palestine, Ohio, fell ill while studying “possible” health impacts from the train derailment last month.
Residents of the town and the surrounding area had been complaining of symptoms such as lethargy and headaches ever since a Norfolk Southern train derailed February 3, releasing vinyl chloride, ethyl acrylate and isobutylene into the environment—chemicals considered to be very toxic, possibly even carcinogenic with high exposure.
First reported by CNN and confirmed by ABC News, seven investigators from the CDC and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry—part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services—started experiencing symptoms.
“On March 6, seven members of a 15-person CDC/ATSDR team conducting Assessment of Chemical Exposure (ACE) surveys of East Palestine residents reported symptoms, including sore throat, headache, coughing and nausea,” the CDC told ABC News in a statement.
Source: ABC News
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