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...sought medical help, with few results. He said, "There are no doctors that know anything about PBB. Any farmer that has had it for years can do a better job of diagnosing than any doctor...
...Thomas is another farmer hit hard by PBB. He has destroyed or sold all but three of his cattle, "but even those look like hell," he said. Thomas said he didn't know how much PBB was in his remaining cows because the state only requires them to be tested in they are going to be sold for meat. If he were selling their milk, the state would test the milk in bulk--combining all the milk in the herd and measuring the level of PBB...
...wouldn't sell milk from such sick cows, however. "We milked the cows probably three years longer than we would've if we knew what we know now," he said. Yet for three years state veterinarians told him his cattle were suffering from low protein, or parasites--not PBB poisoning, he said. He added, "Everybody was telling us it was our problem alone...
Although his family no longer eats anything his farm produces, the PBB has affected them, Thomas said. He said his family is chronically anemic and fatigued, frequently suffering from abnormally stiff and sore joints. "We saw the same symptons in our cows," he said. His son, who has been exposed to PBB since he was an infant and has abnormally high levels of the chemical in his body, has an enlarged liver and spleen. The doctor who examined him thought the condition may have been due to the PBB, but knowledge of PBB's effects is so sketchy that...
Thomas and Jones are only two examples of families with high levels of PBB in their bodies. As many as 10,000 Michigan residents may have PBB in their bodies, and the number grows daily. Dr. Norman J. Selikhoff, a pioneer in the science of epidemiology, is conducting a study of these people. Preliminary findings suggested that PBB consumption caused brain disorders in the form of loss of memory and mental lethargy, immunological disruption, general physical fatigue, and changes in bone and muscle fiber: The new study will be finished later this week, but it is not expected...