(CHARLESTON, W.Va.) — Four days after a chemical spill contaminated drinking water with 4-methylcyclohexane methanol in Charleston, W.Va., Jennifer Kayrouz, who is 38 weeks pregnant, was given the go-ahead, as were others in Charleston, to resume drinking out of the tap.
Residents were told the water was safe to drink on Jan. 13, but late on Jan. 15, the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources issued an advisory for pregnant women based on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s guidelines that recommended “out of an abundance of caution” that “pregnant women drink bottled water until there are no longer detectable levels of 4-methylcyclohexane methanol, or MCHM, in the water distribution system.”
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2 comments:
Follow the money trail. I bet that if you trace the source of that warning to pregnant women, it will lead back to some trial lawyers group.
Any birth defect, autism, allergy, etc. will be blamed on this chemical spill, and the defendants will have to prove innocence.
@3:42,
Maybe they should have done more to prevent the spill...
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