Health Impacts

POTENTIAL HEALTH IMPACTS OF EXPOSURE TO FLY ASH CONTAMINANTS

Arsenic: Acute injury to the respiratory system, the heart, or central nervous system; symptoms of exposure include sore throat, flushing of the face, irregular heart beat, nausea and vomiting.

Mercury: Severe brain damage or cerebral palsy in babies exposed in utero; symptoms of exposure include tremors, irritability, drowsiness, impaired memory.

Hexavalent Chromium: Increased risk of lung cancer; symptoms of exposure include nosebleed, skin ulceration, respiratory distress, kidney damage, and nasal and sinus cancer.

Lead: Extreme learning disability, neurological and reproductive problems; symptoms of exposure include anemia, reduced IQ, gastrointestinal problems.

Selenium: Class 2 carcinogen, repeated inhalation chronic respiratory diseases

And More: Cadmium: Class 1 carcinogen, Dioxins: Class 1 carcinogen (as TCDD). Affects development and reproduction, Nickel: Class 1 carcinogen, PAHs (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon) Some are carcinogens, Cobalt: Class 2b carcinogen, Manganese: Neurological effects, Hydrogen Fluoride: Irritant, affects bone formation, Hydrogen Chloride: Acid, irritant to tissue including respiratory tract, Particulates/PM10s: Respiratory effects; no known safe threshold, Sulphur Oxides: Respiratory effects, Vanadium: Respiratory effects, Thallium: May affects several organs and nervous system, PCBs: Properties similar to dioxins.

Our Wind Blows Your Way - Think About It!

Radiation levels rising.

Slow death is in the air.

Every thing’s mutating but nobody seems to care.

Now our children have to live with the changes that we make.

The whole earth has suffered from the chances that we take.

We say that’s the price of progress and we have no other choice.

Can we make an honest effort? Can see beyond our greed?

B.E. Cause

Bokoshe, Oklahoma 74930

flyash@intheairwebreathe.com

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