{"id":1276,"date":"2011-05-13T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T09:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/2011\/05\/report-backs-pending-legislation-to-investigate-disease-clusters.html"},"modified":"2011-05-13T09:00:35","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T09:00:35","slug":"report_backs_pending_legislati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/2011\/05\/report_backs_pending_legislati.html","title":{"rendered":"Report backs pending legislation to investigate disease clusters"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Alisa Opar<\/em><\/p>\n

\"report300.jpg\"In Kettleman City, California, a town of 1,620 people, 11 babies were born with severe birth defects in the last three years. Meanwhile, at least 60 men who lived on the Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base in North Carolina from the late 1950s into the 1980s have developed breast cancer. And residents in Wellington, Ohio are three times more likely to develop multiple sclerosis than in the rest of the country.<\/p>\n

A new report highlights these and 39 other so-called ‘disease clusters’\u2014defined as unusual aggregations, real or perceived, of health events grouped together in time and space\u2014that have been confirmed or are currently being identified by a local, state or federal agency in 13 US states since 1976. The 28 March report from two nonprofit organizations, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC<\/span>) and the National Disease Clusters Alliance, calls for expanded federal efforts to identify clusters and their causes.<\/p>\n

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By Alisa Opar In Kettleman City, California, a town of 1,620 people, 11 babies were born with severe birth defects in the last three years. Meanwhile, at least 60 men who lived on the Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base in North Carolina from the late 1950s into the 1980s have developed breast cancer. And residents in Wellington, Ohio are three times more likely to develop multiple sclerosis than in the rest of the country. A new report highlights these and 39 other so-called ‘disease clusters’\u2014defined as unusual aggregations, real or perceived, of health events grouped together in time and space\u2014that  … Read more<\/a> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-print"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}