Yikes

[azureowl]

Whoa
From wiki's article on SV: "
Sierra Vista's Deadly Cancer Epidemic

There is and has been an outbreak of Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia, Myelocytic Leukemia and the rare cancer Rhabdomyosarcoma in Sierra Vista. Since 1995, 18 children have been diagnosed and three have died. Several children and adults not included in Arizona's official childhood

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[zimfusion]

I think the military does experiments on the children in their sleep.

Maybe there is something in the water? My parents had their water tested though and it came out fine, but we have had so many bizarre animals and then with my sister and my fertility issues, it still makes me wonder.

[azureowl]

The county also burns tires to get rid of them. Not the most environmentally conscious

There could be, who knows? Maybe it's something in the desert's dust, like Valley Fever. I'd really really interested to find out what's going on if this is ever followed up

[armacham]

People in Sierra Vista are poor. Poor people make poor decisions in regards to nutrition and work in more hazardous jobs. Ergo, more cancer

[azureowl]

What Sierra Vista are you thinking of? The average income in SV is higher than Tucson, every one is in the military or is a government contractor

[armacham]

in that case i blame depleted uranium

[hijakk]

Fort Huachuca is Army, specifically UAV training and SigInt. To my knowledge, DU rounds are only used in the Army by the M1A1 Abrams and AH-64 Apache helicopters, not things that are going to be common at that post. DU is too heavy and impractical for a UAV airframe to carry - normally they're unarmed, or have a Hellfire or two. Everyone else in the armed forces uses the rounds too, but only in heavy gunships.

My guess: all the radio installations have some weird effects on rapidly dividing cells like you'd see in kids. Enough exposure, with enough slight tweaks on a DNA sequence = cancer.

[anonymissity]

so, 18 kids, in 18 years.
roughly, 1 kid a year.
that doesn't sound like an epidemic.
that sounds normal.

but then again, the military does do some strange shit.

[azureowl]

All the cases were discovered within a 2-3 year period