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By
The Associated Press
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Published: Tue, March 04, 2008 - 1:17 pm
Last Updated: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 - 1:19 pm
Last Updated: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 - 1:19 pm
Disease Control and Prevention says the agency should have reacted
sooner to concerns about hazardous fumes in the government-issued
trailers housing thousands of hurricane victims.
Howard Frumkin, director of the CDC's National Center For
Environmental Health, told a congressional panel in Washington on
Tuesday that problems with formaldehyde levels in trailers date
back to the 1980s.
The problems seemed to "recede," he said, until the Federal
Emergency Management Agency used tens of thousands of travel
trailers to shelter victims of hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005.
Frumkin said the CDC didn't tackle the issue "as aggressively
and as early" as it should have after Katrina.
(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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