[CPEO-MEF] VETERANS, VOCs: "Marine veterans petition for medical health registry for Camp Lejeune [NC] toxic water victims"

[Lenny Siegel]

Marine veterans petition for medical health registry for Camp Lejeune toxic water victims

By Greg Barnes
North Carolina Health News
March 16, 2021

In the yellowed photograph from 1968, a young Lisette Partain sits on a hospital bed cradling her newborn baby. A glass of water and a partially filled baby bottle rest on a bedside table.

Mike Partain, the infant in the picture, believes his misery began at conception  Although it wouldn’t manifest itself for decades, Partain believes the water glass and the baby bottle contained toxins that for years had been leaching into the drinking water for Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville.

Partain, like hundreds of thousands of other people, drank and bathed in the water, never having any knowledge of the toxins it contained.

Thirty-nine years after his birth, doctors diagnosed Partain with male breast cancer, a rare disease, especially for someone so young. The cancer remains in remission today, only after a radical mastectomy, months of chemotherapy treatments and a lifetime of continued suffering.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2021/03/16/marine-veterans-petition-for-medical-health-registry-for-camp-lejeune-toxic-water-victims/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel at cpeo.org
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