[HN Gopher] 100 People with rare cancers who attended same NJ hi...
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100 People with rare cancers who attended same NJ high school
demand answers
Author : RickJWagner
Score : 40 points
Date : 2022-04-16 21:30 UTC (1 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (www.foxnews.com)
| pram wrote:
| Makes me think of Love Canal, where they built a school and
| neighborhood over a toxic waste dump.
| extheat wrote:
| Being 30 minutes away from a nuclear processing facility makes
| the story interesting, but highly unlikely to be actually
| correlated. That's just way too far. But perhaps there's not much
| buildings between the school and the facility, so it could be
| plausible that for some reason some material ended up in the
| school. Testing for radiation at the school could give some
| hints, but I have doubts 20+ years after the fact they're going
| to find much.
| cookrn wrote:
| The article mentions that contaminated soil removed from other
| sites could have been utilized during construction of the
| school
| xxxtentachyon wrote:
| The school is in a pretty dense area, less than 10 miles from
| NYC. If the cause were something that wasn't unique to the
| building (such as proximity to a nuclear plant), I'd expect
| many thousands of affected
| js2 wrote:
| Reporting from 17 days ago:
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| https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/former-woodbridge-n-j-r...
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| Additional reporting from today indicating the school is
| currently out on spring break and they are testing for radiation
| and radon:
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| https://westchester.news12.com/colonia-cancer-cluster-tester...
| ricardobeat wrote:
| Sounds like a pretty easy mystery to solve, just walk around the
| school with a Geiger counter. Can't wait to hear the results.
| anthonyu wrote:
| There are many non-radioactive carcinogens.
| LinuxBender wrote:
| One can also take water and soil samples. There are numerous
| labs that the samples can be sent to. They can test for
| hundreds of carcinogens, pesticides, heavy metals, various
| deadly strains of bacteria and much more. Testing is generally
| between $80 and $400 depending on what you ask them to test
| for.
| 2skep wrote:
| No mention of how many kids go to this school and how big is its
| catchment. I don't buy the:
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| "Lupiano eventually arrived at a single linking factor between
| himself, his wife and his sister: they each attended Colonia High
| School in Woodbridge in the 1990s"
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| In addition to the school, he and his sister share their parents
| genes. He and his wife lived in the same neighbourhood so they
| shared many other things too.
| lin83 wrote:
| knappe wrote:
| As the article says, the odds are estimated to be 1 in a
| billion for both his wife and Lupiano to have the same rare
| form of cancer in the same place. Now let's talk about the odds
| of 100+ people all having rare forms of cancer. Maybe that is
| why it is news worthy!
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