Another New Study Links Fracking With Human Health Impacts

A group of U.S scientists have now published three studies evaluating birth outcomes, asthma exacerbations and symptoms (including nasal and sinus, fatigue and migraine headache). They studied over 8,000 mother-child pairs and 35,000 asthma patients. In the recent symptom study they obtained questionnaires from 7,847 patients about nasal, sinus and other health symptoms. These, together with a number of other studies form a growing body of evidence that unconventional natural gas development is having detrimental effects on the health of communities living with this industrial development. Read more… read this study… see our list of similar studies…