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Ione residents urge testing after cluster of childhood cancer cases; council hears wastewater concerns
Summary
Speakers at the Ione City Council meeting pressed officials to demand environmental testing after a newly formed nonprofit and multiple residents said five childhood cancer cases have been diagnosed in Ione in two years and urged agencies to investigate potential links to local wastewater, prison discharges and industrial sites.
Patricia Anjija, treasurer of Amador's Heart of Gold, urged the Ione City Council on Tuesday to push local, county and state agencies to test the environment after she said six childhood cancer cases have been diagnosed in Amador County this year and five of those cases were in Ione. "Five of those cases being located in Ione . . . gives us a rate of 0.094 percent," Anjija said, and she described that figure as far above the national average.
Anjija said she calculated a county rate of 0.015 percent and compared it to the National Cancer Institute's national average of 0.0048 percent. She asked the council to press Amador County Public Health, the Amador Water Agency, Mule Creek State Prison, the regional…
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