FEMA Trailers May Be Hazardous to Health « Thread Started on May 19, 2007, 6:43am »
As we close into the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, there has been a new occurance that calls into question whether the government is doing its best to help the survivors of the disaster. It seems that the trailers dispensed by FEMA have been making its residents sick. This is from CBS News:
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Today the government says 86,000 families are still living in those white FEMA travel trailers across the Gulf more and more waking up with a host of health problems tied, medical experts believe, to the place they still call home.
When Hurricane Katrina tore apart homes here in Bay St. Louis, Miss., Angela Orcutt and her young son Nicky found shelter in a FEMA trailer meant for weekend trips.
That trip has now lasted 21 months something these trailers were never built for. Time has turned them into human Petri dishes unregulated experiments on the health of thousands still stuck inside.
What were the symptoms?
"Pretty much just the constant coughing, Angela Orcutt told CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian. He would just you could hear it, just in his chest."
Dr. Scott Needle, a pediatrician in Bay St. Louis, was the first to notice Nicky was not alone. Dozens of his patients were suffering from the same symptoms that kept coming back: coughing, burning eyes, nose bleeds, sinus infections.
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