佛林特市鉛水風暴似乎殺害10倍於官方死亡數字：報導

佛林特市鉛水風暴似乎殺害10倍於官方死亡數字：報導
Flint Water Crisis Likely Killed 10 Times the Official Death Toll: Report

July 26, 2018

(CD) — Less than a week after a federal watchdog blasted all levels of government for their failures to prevent and quickly respond to the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, an ongoing investigation by PBS‘s “FRONTLINE” found that the death toll may be much higher than the official number reported by the state.

The investigation—which centers on Legionnaires’ disease, a form of pneumonia caused by the legionella bacteria—comes from an extensive review of six years of death records, and interviews with families of the deceased as well as several epidemiologists and infectious disease specialists.

As “FRONTLINE” reports:

Officially, 90 people were sickened and 12 died from exposure to waterborne legionella bacteria during the 18 months that the city of Flint drew its water from the Flint River in 2014 and 2015. But FRONTLINE’s investigation has found 119 deaths from pneumonia during that time, some of which scientists say could actually have been caused by legionella.

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