McHenry County cancer cluster on CBS News
December 16th, 2008 at 11:12am Georgette Braun
In McCullom Lake near McHenry in McHenry County, in a community of about 1,000 people, 14 residents have developed brain cancer. Nationally the rate is roughly seven out of 100,000, according to this CBS story.
Coincidence?
“Attorney Aaron Freiwald says “absolutely not.” He represents the McCollum Lake Village residents in their lawsuits against multi-billion dollar chemical company Rohm and Haas. Rohm and Haas has had a plant there since 1963. It makes specialty chemicals that are used in a variety of industries - from plastics to pesticides. It has 140 facilities in 27 countries.” The company denies the charges.
The Northwest Herald, where I worked a long time ago, ran a series last December about the issue.
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1. NJ | December 16th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
I am curious as to what type of brain cancer these people are suffering from. We lost a good friend of my husband\\\’s almost 4 years ago to a glioblastoma and now one of my closet friends has been diagnosed with a glioblastoma……supposdedly a \\"RARE\\" type of brain cancer……
2. Georgette Braun | December 16th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
NJ: I am not sure about that. You could certainly e-mail the Northwest Herald reporter at the link in my blog post. Maybe the reporter has more info. Or maybe it is contained in the series the Northwest Herald wrote last December.
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