>From: "mart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Forward from mart. >Please distribute widely. > >>from: jclancy@smartchat,net.au > >> >>SIX CHILDREN ON VIEQUES REPORTED TO HAVE HEAVY METAL POISONING >> >>Story Filed: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 11:55 AM EST >> >>San Juan, Sep 06, 2000 (EFE via COMTEX) -- Six children on the island >>of Vieques are suffering poisoning from heavy metals such as arsenic, >>cadmium, bismuth, mercury and lead, the Association of Licensed >>Naturopaths of Puerto Rico (ANLPR) announced Wednesday. >> >>The group referred to a report by the Doctor's Data laboratory in >>Chicago, which examined the stool samples of a group of Vieques >>children between the ages of one and 13 and found that the heavy >>metals detected "were above normal levels." >> >>The ANLPR said that this poisoning was the result of U.S. Navy >>military exercises on Vieques. >> >>"Six children from Vieques who were examined are accumulating >>potentially toxic metals in their bodies. This is especially alarming >>in the cases of two little girls who are only one and two years old >>who may have absorbed these metals from their mothers' placenta, >>because it may mean that this poisoning is being passed on from one >>generation to another," the organization said. >> >>Several months ago, the ANLPR - through its scientific committee and >>its president, Dr. Carmen Colon de Jorge - placed these findings in >>the hands of the Health Department and the Health Commission of the >>Puerto Rican Senate. >> >>"The scientific committee has also met and discussed these findings >>with toxicologists from the Federal Agency of Toxic Substances and >>Registry of Illnesses to no avail, as the committee has requested >>these institutions continue investigations and has received no >>response whatsoever," the ANLPR indicated. >> >>The organization added that "the committee has sent a copy of the >>study to Gov. Pedro Rossello and has written to U.S. President Bill >>Clinton, as well as Puerto Rican lawmakers, and received no answer." >>EFE " JC > > > > >Knowledge is Power! >Elimination of the exploitation of man by man >http://www.egroups.com/group/pttp/ >POWER TO THE PEOPLE! > >Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Change Delivery Options: >http://www.egroups.com/mygroups > > _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi _______________________________________________________ Kominform list for general information. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anti-Imperialism list for anti-imperialist news. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________
