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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday May 27 2017, @04:43AM   Printer-friendly
from the downstream-from-Flint-MI? dept.

New research from the University of Cincinnati (UC) reveals that residents of the Mid-Ohio River Valley (from Evansville, Indiana, north to Huntington, West Virginia) had higher than normal levels of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) based on blood samples collected over a 22-year span. The exposure source was likely from drinking water contaminated by industrial discharges upriver.

The study, appearing in the latest publication of Environmental Pollution, looked at levels of PFOA and 10 other per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in 931 Mid-Ohio River Valley residents, testing blood serum samples collected between 1991 and 2013, to determine whether the Ohio River and Ohio River Aquifer were sources of exposure. This is the first study of PFOA serum concentrations in U.S. residents in the 1990s.

"These Mid-Ohio River Valley residents appear to have had concentrations of PFOA in their bloodstream at higher than average U.S. levels," says Susan Pinney, PhD, professor in the Department of Environmental Health at the UC College of Medicine, a member of both the Cincinnati Cancer Consortium and UC Cancer Institute and senior author of the study.

Ohio River PFOA concentrations downstream were elevated, suggesting Mid-Ohio River Valley residents were exposed through drinking water, primarily contaminated by industrial discharges as far as 666 kilometers (413 miles) upstream. Industrial discharges of PFOA to the Ohio River, contaminating water systems near Parkersburg, West Virginia, were previously associated with nearby residents' serum PFOA concentrations above U.S. general population medians.

[...] Pinney points out that the primary concern with PFCs/PFOA is that they take a very long time to leave the human body, and studies indicate that exposure to PFOA and PFOS over certain levels may result in adverse health effects, including developmental effects, liver and tissue damage and immune and thyroid impacts.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 27 2017, @06:00AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 27 2017, @06:00AM (#516315)

    Don't forget the Ongoing Wars. Trump needs at least one war to call his own. Get a bunch of brainstormtroopers together and dream up a new name for ISIS so Trump can declare war on the successor of ISIS just like Obama declared war on the successor of Al-Qaeda. Each Imperial President needs a Perpetual Enemy to call his own in the Forever War.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 27 2017, @06:15AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 27 2017, @06:15AM (#516323)

    If they wipe out ISIS. The Muslim brotherhood will spawn another one. They will themselves not act violently on that level but they sure organize people that are involved.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 27 2017, @11:27AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 27 2017, @11:27AM (#516373)

      No no no, we will root out all The Bad Guys then our problems will be solved. It just takes more indiscriminate bombing. The Good Guys appreciate they will lose a few of their kids and their homes and have their country dissolved. It's all about making sure we kill The Bad Guys.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 27 2017, @04:25PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 27 2017, @04:25PM (#516450)

        It takes profiling, internment and expulsion. Not that hard. In the UK there are circa 3000 persons known to be ready to commit more attacks on innocent people.