The “Muscatine Crud”
Muscatine Crud: an unclassifiable, upper-respiratory sickness nicknamed after the Iowa river town.
“Muscatine is a hotspot for air pollution-related illnesses relative to the rest of Iowa,” said Dr. Maureen McCue, a physician from a neighboring county and founding member of the University of Iowa Global Health Studies Program.
Watch this video of a personal account by a Muscatine woman who believes that her and her daughter's asthma are caused by local air pollution.
Click here to read the entire article by B. Adam Burke at Midwest Energy News
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