Many epidemiological studies, including a major effort by And while the Woburn leukemia cases were being discovered, significant toxic pollution was being found inįor all the fear of chemical waste in the United States since the 1978 revelations at Love Canal, public health problems from dumped toxics have been less frequent than many people had expected. Shortly before his death, one of the firemen on the crew proved to be a man whose own young son had recently died of leukemia. On the terrible day in 1980 when an ambulance took Jimmy to a hospital Anderson discovered that there existed in Woburn, a small industrial town outside Boston, an unusual number of children afflicted with leukemia. This private tragedy would become a public one as, through IN January 1972, a woman in Woburn, Mass., named Anne Anderson took her 3-year-old son Jimmy for treatment of what seemed a severe cold, and soon learned to her horror that the illness was leukemia. September 10, 1995, Sunday, Late Edition - FinalĪ CIVIL ACTION By Jonathan Harr.
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