While officials claim the cleanup is over, Wayne County residents are taking testing into their own hands to uncover the true scale of the contamination. On Tuesday, January 13, a vandalism incident at Appalachian Power’s East Lynn substation triggered an environmental emergency in Wayne County. Approximately 4,900 gallons of transformer oil leaked into the RightContinue reading “Murky Waters: The East Lynn Oil Spill and the Fight for the Truth”
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Did You Know This About Polio?
In April 1955 more than 200 000 children in five Western and mid-Western USA states received a polio vaccine in which the process of inactivating the live virus proved to be defective. Within days there were reports of paralysis and within a month the first mass vaccination programme against polio had to be abandoned. SubsequentContinue reading “Did You Know This About Polio?”
