Swine flu’s little helper
July 30th, 2009 by Rhiannon Bowman in News
Zoinks.
Scientists have discovered that exposure to a common pollutant may make people more likely to experience severe symptoms from swine flu — and it’s a pollutant emitted in large quantities by coal-burning power plants and other industrial facilities.
The culprit is arsenic, a highly poisonous semi-metal which, according to a new study by researchers at the Marine Biological Laboratory and Dartmouth Medical School, compromises a person’s ability to mount an immune response to the H1N1 swine flu virus.
Most disturbingly, the study — published last month in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives — found that arsenic can weaken the immune response to swine flu even in the low-level exposure levels that are commonly found in contaminated drinking water.
More from the The Institute for Southern Studies.
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July 30th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
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July 30th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
I suggest we start making some nuke plants to solve this problem. The green goofballs will probably stop action on that front so I guess we better get used to being sicker. Thanks for nothing tree huggers.
I heard that liberalism makes man made global warming 10 times worse.
July 30th, 2009 at 6:14 pm
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July 31st, 2009 at 7:22 am
Swine flu’s BIG helper in this ares of appalachia is tobbaco use way more than coal fired power plants.