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We're about to find out if Mississippi hurricane victims have been living through a toxic crisis. On Thursday, FEMA and the Centers For Disease Control announced plans to test the air quality in 500 ...
Federal health officials on Thursday urged hurricane victims to move out of trailers supplied by FEMA after tests showed dangerous levels of formaldehyde fumes. Tests by the Centers for Disease ...
(Adds comments from FEMA paragraphs 4-5, manufacturers 14th paragraph, House hearing 17th paragraph) By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor WASHINGTON, July 2 (Reuters) - Pressed wood products such ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) posted on Wednesday two reports from its work related to assessing the levels of formaldehyde in the indoor air of travel trailers used by the ...
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, FEMA provided either mobile homes or travel trailers to displaced Gulf Coast residents who had lost their homes. Residents of these units have raised concerns ...
NEW ORLEANS – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should have reacted sooner to concerns about hazardous fumes in government-issued trailers housing thousands of Gulf Coast hurricane ...
As CBS News first reported last spring, FEMA has been under heavy fire for failing to acknowledge then adequately address health problems like respiratory illness associated with the toxic chemical ...
A federal scientist said Tuesday his bosses ignored pleas to alert Gulf Coast hurricane victims earlier about severe health risks from formaldehyde in government-issued trailers and once told him not ...
The news that mobile homes in Hope, AR, were being sent to the recent tornado victims in Arkansas and Tennessee generated speculation in Jasper that the marshalling yard here might reopen sales of ...
More than two years after residents of FEMA trailers deployed along the Mississippi Gulf Coast began complaining of breathing difficulties, nosebleeds and persistent headaches, U.S. health officials ...