Studies Prove A Connection Between Drinking Camp Lejeune Water And Childhood Birth Defects And Deaths

Military leaders failed to adequately warn those living or working on the base of the dangers lurking in their tap water.

Sunday, October 30, 2022 - A disturbing situation is developing that focuses on a section of the Camp Lejeune Rural Cemetary nicknamed "Baby Heaven." People who visit the cemetery are shocked to see hundreds of gravesites that house babies and infants. Other military cemeteries also report this anomaly as families once served at Camp Lejeune and transferred elsewhere. So many children are buried at Camp Lejeune that researchers have taken notice and want answers. For many, it is presumed that pregnant women living or working on the base from 1953 to 1987 and drinking the contaminated tap water have given birth to stillborn children. Others have been born with a predisposition to developing childhood leukemia, a fatal form of cancer in children. The Sun.co.uk reports that the young daughter of a retired US marine died in the early 1980s from leukemia at the age of 9. The soldier blames the US Navy and Marine Corps for failing to warn his family that the local tap water was contaminated and is filing suit under the newly enacted into law Camp Lejeune Justice Act. The CLJA allows lawsuits to be filed against the Navy and Marine Corps seeking lump-sum monetary compensation. Individuals in the armed services that served at Camp Lejeune from 1953 to 1987 for at least 30-days may be eligible. Another Camp Lejeune water contamination victim tells a story of having two healthy children before moving to Camp Lejeune. Tragedy struck one month after her third child was born when the baby died from what was diagnosed as stage three kidney cancer. Cancer can have a latency of about ten years in some instances so children that attended daycare or school at Camp Lejeune may be developing cancer as adults. Camp Lejeune water attorneys are shocked at the cavalier attitude military leaders exhibited in failing to adequately warn those living or working on the base of the dangers lurking in their tap water.

The CDC looked at more than 12,000 cases of children born to parents serving at Camp Lejeune from 1953 to 1987 and concluded that hundreds have died from cancer as a result of drinking ordinary tap water. The study also examined the effects that drinking the local water during a child's first year of life had on their health and development. The study determined that Camp Lejeune drinking water was contaminated with volatile organic compounds (VOCs) including trichloroethylene (TCE), tetrachloroethylene (PCE), benzene, 1,2-dichloroethylene (DCE), and vinyl chloride, all suspected to be carcinogenic. According to the CDC, "Survey participants reported 106 cases: 35 neural tube defects (NTDs), 42 oral clefts, and 29 childhood hematopoietic cancers. ATSDR made extensive efforts to obtain medical information from health providers to confirm reported cases. ATSDR was able to confirm 15 NTDs, 24 oral clefts, and 13 cancers. Only confirmed cases from the survey were eligible for the study. Based on the survey results, the study focused on NTDs (spina bifida and anencephaly), oral clefts (cleft lip and cleft palate), and childhood hematopoietic cancers (leukemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma [NHL]) diagnosed before 20 years of age."

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