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Suppressed Report Shows Elevated Cancer Levels and Other Health Problems in Key States in US

February 14, 2008 at 2:44 PM General Health News

An official report on the health scene in the Great Lake states in US has been sought to be suppressed. Activists wonder whether authorities are embarrassed by its findings of elevated rates of lung, colon and breast cancers in that region.

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The Great Lakes -- Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario -- and their connecting channels form the largest fresh surface water system on earth.

Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Ontario in Canada are known as the Great Lake states.

The 400-plus-page study, Public Health Implications of Hazardous Substances in the Twenty-Six U.S. Great Lakes Areas of Concern, was undertaken by a division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) at the request of the International Joint Commission, an independent bilateral organization that advises the U.S. and Canadian governments on the use and quality of boundary waters between the two countries.

For more than seven months, the nation�s top public health agency has blocked the publication of an exhaustive federal study of environmental hazards in the eight Great Lakes states, reportedly because it contains such potentially �alarming information� as evidence of elevated infant mortality and cancer rates, remarks Sheila Kaplan, reporting for the Center for Public Integrity, a public interest investigative journalism organization.

She says researchers had found low birth weights, elevated rates of infant mortality and premature births, and elevated death rates from breast cancer, colon cancer, and lung cancer.

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