All posts tagged "Environmentalillnesses"

PEORIA, Ill. -- Tracy Pinkham remembers all of it: The way the onions looked slimy and how she woke the next morning with a dry mouth and blurry vision that got worse as the day went on. Her head falling to her shoulders as her husband drove to a walk-in clinic that diagnosed her with an inner-ear infection and sent her home. The crowded emergency room. The doctor who scoured his medical textbook for answers. The two months on a breathing machine, paralyzed. The nightmares. The decades of muscle weakness that never seemed to get better despite physical therapy. “I used to joke that I died and ......

NEW YORK — As the air quality rapidly deteriorated and a thick layer of smoke descended on New York City these last days, Mayor Eric Adams called for people to stay indoors. Not everyone could. Not unlike during the days of COVID-19 lockdowns, those who deliver food, respond to 911 calls and sell lunches on the street pushed through the public health emergency amid smoky haze and dangerous air. “People have been really struggling, said Mohamed Attia, executive director at the Street Vendor Project. “We’re seeing people working, like the vendors that are out there. I haven’t seen any area where......

SAN DIEGO -- Every morning before the school day begins at Perkins K-8, there's somebody at the main gate to greet every family walking in. Most days it's the dean of students, Moises Villalpando — his students know him as Mr. V. "Buenos días, mi niña," Villalpando says. "Good morning, Mom." "¿Cómo estás?" Moms pushing strollers with babies accompany their kids to class. Children not 5 feet tall walk to school holding their little siblings' hands. Dads lean in for a fist bump with Villalpando. Kids run, without saying a word, to give him a hug. At Perkins, school staff and volunteers are fight......

With gangs continuing to block the entrance to Haiti’s seaports and the country’s main fuel terminal, the United Nations and its partners are asking for the opening of a “humanitarian corridor” to allow the release of fuel and aid workers to move freely without fear for their safety to respond to the worsening crisis. The appeal comes amida resurgence of cholera, which risks infecting and killing thousands of people as Haitians increasingly find themselves without access to clean water because of an ongoing blockade of fuel by a powerful gang coalition, the G-9 federation, now in its fourth we......

SAN DIEGO — Adam Wraight pulled a blue sewage "warning" sign out of the sand near Imperial Beach Pier on Thursday morning, replacing it with the more ominous yellow and red placard telling beachgoers that waters were officially closed. "There's more than just the normal ooze that's coming?" asked Imperial Beach native Colette Dominguez who happened to walk by. "It's an active spill," explained Wraight, a marine safety sergeant with the city's lifeguards. "A big pipeline broke." Shorelines from the border up through Coronado were closed to swimming Thursday as the result of a pipeline that rupt......

NEW YORK — The feds have doled out more than $10 billion to people suffering from 9/11-related health conditions, The New York Daily News has learned. “They should be giving out another $10 billion if that’s what’s needed,” said retired Con Edison worker Cheryl Hall, who received compensation for a litany of illnesses linked to her time at Ground Zero. “We give out billions of dollars in aid to other countries like the Ukraine, they should give us a fighting chance too.” The U.S. Department of Justice confirmed that the federal September 11th Victim Compensation Fund had given out $10 billion ......