Scientist: CDC Bosses Ignored Warning

[DeSwiss]

Source: Associated Press

Scientist: CDC Bosses Ignored Warning

By BEN EVANS, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 41 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - 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 to write e-mails about his concerns.

Christopher De Rosa, who until recently was one of the government's top toxicologists, told a congressional panel that he repeatedly raised concerns early last year that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was not adequately informing the public of the hazard, even as symptoms of dangerous exposure were surfacing. As a result, tens of thousands of families displaced by hurricanes Katrina and Rita remained in the trailers without full knowledge of the risks, he said.

"I stated that such clinical signs were a 'harbinger of a pending public health catastrophe,'" De Rosa said in written testimony, quoting one series of e-mails he wrote to superiors last summer. "I stressed the importance of alerting the trailer residents to the potential reproductive, developmental and carcinogenic effects ... (but) the only response I received was that such matters should not be discussed in e-mails since they might be 'misinterpreted.'"

De Rosa's comments came Tuesday at a House Science and Technology subcommittee hearing on how the CDC and its sister agencies handled complaints about trailers issued by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Committee Democrats accuse FEMA of manipulating scientific research to downplay the dangers. They say the CDC and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, where De Rosa worked, went along with the effort.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080401/ap_on_go_ot/fema_trailers_cdc

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- His emails might be misinterpreted? As what? The truth? As compared to the drivel they usually hand us???
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[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. It clearly states in camper manuals that they ARE NOT to be

used over the long term. That comes straight from the manufacturers.

[NC_Nurse]

2. Reminds me of that old movie "And the Band Played On", about how the CDC

people played politics with the Aids virus back when it first hit the gay community. Of course, they knew good old Ronny wouldn't
want to help, then their funding might get cut. :puke:

I guess nobody wanted to point out yet ANOTHER blunder by FEMA dealing with Katrina...pathetic.

So which crony of Bush's runs the CDC these days? :eyes:

[tavalon]

5. No way! The CDC playing politics!

I lost that religion about six years ago. I used to believe they were above politics and were medical purists. What a sap I was! Doesn't shock me a bit anymore, but it sure was devastating then. I had been a nurse for about a dozen years then and relied on the CDC as an absolute primary source for so much "evidenced based medicine" - embarrassing really, now that I look back on it. BTW, the CDC is far more corrupt than an arbitrary Democratic/Republican dichotomy, far more. The CDC,the IOM,Merck Medco and Thomas Verstraeten, MD, taught me how much a soul is worth - $600,000. Of course that was 10 years ago, I'm sure that "man" commands far more cash for his services these days.

I think the question would be better phrased "which corporations own the CDC these days?" The blood soaked money trail will always give up its answers if you look. Just be sure you can live with the answers. There was a time I wasn't sure I could but I guess I did.

[tanyev]

3. Well, you know, if he had written emails, they would have had to make sure

they got "lost" when the investigation started. Much easier for no emails to be written in the first place.

[ShockediSay]

4. Loyal political cronies get

round one.

[truthisfreedom]

6. bush doesn't use email for a reason.

repugnants find it hard to make money once there's proof.