The total number of responses was 213 households with total participants counted as 584.
394 individuals reported one or more of the following diagnoses with the majority of participants reporting multiple diagnoses:
High Cholesterol
Thyroid Disorder
Increased Liver Function
Ulcerative Colitis
Decreased Kidney Functioning
Type I Diabetes
Testicular Cancer
Prostate Cancer
Kidney Cancer
Bladder Cancer
Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma
Ovarian Cancer
Increased Uric Acid
Pre-eclampsia
Low infant birth weight
Changes in reproductive development/Puberty
Lower immune functioning
Lower antibody response
Autoimmune disorder
Representatives from MCFCW met with NH DHHS on September 29, 2017 to discuss survey findings and to request additional health support for our residents including access to blood testing, physician education and resources, and additional study incorporating DES water testing data and data from the DHHS blood sample survey.
Multiple requests have been made to ATSDR and our state department of public health to conduct a health study of this highly impacted area, we have partnered with highly experienced academic partners and applied for several grants to study health outcomes but all have been denied. After a significant amount of advocacy, NHDHHS did agree to conduct a Cancer Incident Report, however it is only for Merrimack, not the additional highly exposed communities of Bedford, Londonderry and Litchfield, and only looks at cases through 2018. The ATSDR health consultation that we waited 6 years gravely underestimates the health impacts of our chronic exposure as the federal screening levels remain too high.