Children in Katrina Trailers May Face Lifelong Ailments
May 28th, 2008Obviously, it’s just a Coincidence that tens of thousands of children will need lifelong medical care after spending time in these FEMA facilities. Lifelong, meaning, until they die of cancer before they’re able to have children of their own; all courtesy of the U.S. Government.
The helpful AP article states, “Doctors cannot conclusively link her asthma to the trailer.” Ahh, I see. It’s like… vaccines and the associated dangers, in other words.
Just remember this story if there is any doubt left in your mind about the nature of this horror show.
Via: AP:
The anguish of Hurricane Katrina should have ended for Gina Bouffanie and her daughter when they left their FEMA trailer. But with each hospital visit and each labored breath her child takes, the young mother fears it has just begun.
“It’s just the sickness. I can’t get rid of it. It just keeps coming back,” said Bouffanie, 27, who was pregnant with her now 15-month-old daughter, Lexi, while living in the trailer. “I’m just like, `Oh God, I wish like this would stop.’ If I had known it would get her sick, I wouldn’t have stayed in the trailer for so long.”
The girl, diagnosed with severe asthma, must inhale medicine from a breathing device.
Doctors cannot conclusively link her asthma to the trailer. But they fear she is among tens of thousands of youngsters who may face lifelong health problems because the temporary housing supplied by the Federal Emergency Management Agency contained formaldehyde fumes up to five times the safe level.
The chemical, used in interior glue, was detected in many of the 143,000 trailers sent to the Gulf Coast in 2006. But a push to get residents out of them, spearheaded by FEMA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, did not begin until this past February.
Members of Congress and CDC insiders say the agencies’ delay in recognizing the danger is being compounded by studies that will be virtually useless and the lack of a plan to treat children as they grow.
“It’s tragic that when people most need the protection, they are actually going from one disaster to a health disaster that might be considered worse,” said Christopher De Rosa, assistant director for toxicology and risk assessment at the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, an arm of the CDC. “Given the longer-term implications of exposure that went on for a significant period of time, people should be followed through time for possible effects.”
Formaldehyde is classified as a probable carcinogen, or cancer-causing substance, by the Environmental Protection Agency. There is no way to measure formaldelhyde in the bloodstream. Respiratory problems are an early sign of exposure.
Young children are at particular risk. Thousands who lived in trailers will be in the prime of life in the 10 to 15 years doctors believe it takes cancer to develop.
No one needs to convince me that Hurricane Katrina was a “hit job” on a massive scale engineered by the Kill Off the Poor People Hit Team. Why the rich folks didn’t get hurt by the storm is fricking amazing isn’t it? Why the story of the explosions in the levees were squashed?
Imagine how much more money you’d have for wars and other such money makers if you just killed them? No more welfare checks, etc. etc.etc.
Such a drain on the war chest having to pay out all those dollars to former slaves or whatever the populace is that used live in New Orleans.
Yah, GWB sho nuff don’t like black, white, chicano, you name it, the peoples.
I hope to see the day, even if it is only an exercise, where GWB has to shake a black man’s hand as he takes over the office of the Presidency. Will he have a basin nearby to wash his hands as Pontius Pilate did before he crucified the Christ?
Oh wait, Tecumseh’s curse is still haunting the shrub. He may not be the one to turn the office over. We’ll have to hide an watch knowing the signs are not GOOD for the Shrub. This is going to be an interesting drama playing out.
It kills my spirit to read of the never ending kill off from Katrina. Yup GWB sho nuff don’t like people that aren’t in his club.