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2025-02-26 02:23:00
"Texans living in a 250-square-mile area of Harris County that includes a hazardous Superfund site had abnormally high rates of certain types of cancer, according to a new assessment from the state’s health department...Between 2013 and 2021, the study found, people in the area had cancer rates above the expected range for cervix uteri cancer, leukemia, lung and bronchus cancer and lymphoma."
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/02/24/texas-harris-county-cancer-risk-epa-superfund-site-san-jacinto/
#PublicHealth #environment #EPA #cancer #houston #HarrisCounty #texas