Utica, NY Area Chronic Wasting and Cancer/Disease Cluster
Radiation Profile around one ARSR-4 Radar and two WSR-88 Radars. Cancer cluster pins shown. Highest scattered radiation intensity will vary with cloud height and radar dish angle
Health Department to investigate possible cancer cluster
It’s not often the state Department of Health agrees to investigate an area that claims to have a possible cancer cluster. But the Kuyahoora Valley — which encompasses Newport, Middleville, Norway, Fairfield, Poland and Cold Brook — is the latest to join that small list. The investigation, when it begins, might not be as comprehensive as some would like, however.Newport resident Melissa Lowell, backed by the 1,000-member strong “Kuyahoora Valley – What’s Making Us Sick” Facebook group, has been pushing for a study since six area children developed pediatric cancers between spring 2011 and summer 2013. Three of them were diagnosed with the same rare, aggressive lymphoma — a rate the Department of Health agreed was “higher than would be expected” in an Aug. 25 letter to Lowell.
ARSR-4 Radar Station 15 miles from disease area in humans and also centered around chronic wasting area in local deer
Air Route Surveillance Radar
The Joint Surveillance System (JSS) is a joint United States Air Force and Federal Aviation Administration system for the atmospheric air defense of North America. It replaced the Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) system in 1983.
The JSS consists of long range surveillance radars, primarily operated and maintained by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), but providing communication and radar data to both FAA and United States Air Force control centers.
FAA equipment is a primarily a mixture of Long Range Air Route Surveillance Radars (ARSR) of various types, although some use legacy AN/FPS radars. They are co-located with UHF ground-air-ground (G/A/G) transmitter/receiver (GATR) facilities at many locations. Fourteen sites have VHF radios as well. The GATR facility provides radio access to fighters and Airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft from the SOCCs. The JSS has been enhanced under the FAA/Air Force Radar Replacement Program with 44 ARSR-4/FPS-130 radars to replace some of the many previous long-range radars. This provides common, high-performance, unattended radars. The ARSR-4/FPS-130 is a 3-D long range radar with an effective detection range of some 250 miles and has been fully integrated with JSS at all joint use sites.
Chronic Wasting Disease Cluster in Same Area as radar and human disease cluster
Chronic Wasting Disease of Elk and Deer and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
The emergence and continuing spread of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), a prion disease in deer and elk, has now reached 14 U.S. states, two Canadian provinces and South Korea, producing a potential for cross-species transmission of CWD prions to humans and other animals globally. In 2005, CWD spread for the first time from the Midwest to more densely populated regions of the East Coast. As a result, a large cohort of individuals attending a wild game feast in upstate New York were exposed to a deer that was subsequently confirmed positive for CWD.
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