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> Autoimmune Disease: the Environmental Connection

> Gotbaum

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> BOSTON, MA (2002-03-06)

> The old MBTA Edison South power plant in South Boston, MA

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> An unexpectedly high number of women in certain Boston neighborhoods are

> being diagnosed with autoimmune diseases, and epidemiologists are

wondering

> whether industrial chemicals in their neighborhoods are to blame.

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> Autoimmune diseases are little understood by scientists. There is no known

> cure for most autoimmune diseases, nor do doctors know why people get

them.

> One fact that is known though is that women are more likely to get

> autoimmune diseases than men. In neighborhoods of South Boston and of

> Roxbury, Boston public health officials are looking into why a high number

> of women are coming down with rare connective tissue autoimmune diseases.

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