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, seven of the CDC's 15-person Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry team fell ill while working on an investigation, which they began conducting around March 6.: coughing, headaches, sore throats, and nausea and were "resolved for most team members later the same afternoon," the agency said in a statement toThose were not the only government workers who fell ill in the area, however.
Their symptoms reportedly abated and they returned to work the same day, and the agency hasn't yet explained what or where the contractors were working on, though it did make a point to mention that of the more than 100 EPA personnel who have been deployed to East Palestine, only those two reported feeling unwell.
Despite those reassurances, there are a few significant outstanding questions at play here, including what exactly caused their illnesses and why it took nearly a month for thAs the report notes, the CDC did not officially confirm that any of its employees had gotten ill until posts began circulating on social media about it, and whenIt's not at all shocking that a handful of government workers got sick while investigating this disaster given just how much noxious gas was released during...
But it is striking that these agencies that are supposed to report important health information to the public chose to go with a "nothing to see here, folks" directive that nobody really believes — and it certainly isn't helping their credibility.
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