The Oregonian has picked up on the story that EW first ran Thursday about Oregon National Guard soldiers’ exposure to a highly toxic chemical in Iraq.
The Oregonian reported that as many as 52 soldiers were exposed to the hexavalent chromium. Two Indiana soldiers that were exposed have contracted cancer and one has died. The Oregonian cited a doctor saying that exposure to a concentration of “about the size of a grain of salt in about a cubic yard — has shown a 50 percent increase in cancers.”
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