Oh-ho-ho...Those Bastards.
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CDC confirms FEMA did a heck of a job
Category: CDC • Consumers • Environmental health • Federal health • Product safety
Posted on: February 16, 2008 4:30 PM, by revere
It's official. Living in one of the 120,000 trailers FEMA supplied after Hurrican Katrina is bad for you:
Federal health officials on Thursday urged hurricane victims to move out of trailers supplied by FEMA after tests showed dangerous levels of formaldehyde fumes.
Tests by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on more than 500 trailers in Louisiana and Mississippi showed formaldehyde levels that were five times higher than levels in a normal house. The levels in some trailers were nearly 40 times what is normal.
The CDC said people should move out quickly -- especially children, the elderly and anyone with asthma or another chronic condition. Warmer temperatures can increase formaldehyde levels, and CDC officials said they want residents to move out of the trailers before summer. (NPR)
Nothing about this story is new. We discussed it here as long as seven months ago and more recently here. It's certainly not new to the many people who complained about respiratory symptoms and nosebleeds after living in the trailers. Nor is it new that formaldehyde in trailers can cause these problems. Nor is it new that FEMA has, once again, done a heck of a job.
Just the same-old same-old: the phenomenal (and dangerous) incompetence of the Bush administration.
http://scienceblogs.com/effectmeasu...k_o.php?utm_source=mostactive&utm_medium=link
CDC confirms FEMA did a heck of a job
Category: CDC • Consumers • Environmental health • Federal health • Product safety
Posted on: February 16, 2008 4:30 PM, by revere
It's official. Living in one of the 120,000 trailers FEMA supplied after Hurrican Katrina is bad for you:
Federal health officials on Thursday urged hurricane victims to move out of trailers supplied by FEMA after tests showed dangerous levels of formaldehyde fumes.
Tests by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on more than 500 trailers in Louisiana and Mississippi showed formaldehyde levels that were five times higher than levels in a normal house. The levels in some trailers were nearly 40 times what is normal.
The CDC said people should move out quickly -- especially children, the elderly and anyone with asthma or another chronic condition. Warmer temperatures can increase formaldehyde levels, and CDC officials said they want residents to move out of the trailers before summer. (NPR)
Nothing about this story is new. We discussed it here as long as seven months ago and more recently here. It's certainly not new to the many people who complained about respiratory symptoms and nosebleeds after living in the trailers. Nor is it new that formaldehyde in trailers can cause these problems. Nor is it new that FEMA has, once again, done a heck of a job.
Just the same-old same-old: the phenomenal (and dangerous) incompetence of the Bush administration.