Pandemics? Concidence? Hazardous waste, biosolids, reclaimed water

This is a work in progress
                                     EPIDEMICS?
                                     PANDEMICS?
                COINCIDENCE? Parallels sludge biosolids use!

                                                           HAZARDOUS WASTE
DRINKING WATER, RECLAIMED SEWAGE EFFLUENT WATER AND SLUDGE BIOSOLIDS USE

by Jim Bynum

As Tom Rooney states it in a September 30, 2006 ESSAY: Sewage diseases worse than deadly spinach

Government agencies claim there have been no documented public health damages from exposure to hazardous
waste, drinking water, pathogen contaminated sewage sludge (biosolids) and sewage effluent (reclaimed water)
used on food crops, parks, school grounds and lawns. However, in the last two decades the medical community
has documented the rise of pandemics across the U.S.

Due to funding restrictions, scientists have focused on personal choices and actions to explain the pandemics.
Now it is time to consider environmental factors effecting public health. You have to remember, if a scientist does
not understand the exposure potential, any study is the result of a simple guess based on ignorance..

The most commonly recognized foodborne infections are those caused by the bacteria Campylobacter,
Salmonella, and E. coli O157:H7, and by a group of viruses called calicivirus, also known as the Norovirus,
Norwalk and Norwalk-like viruses.
http://www.deadlydeceit.com/Food-borne-illness-death.html

The same Air, Water and Food borne pathogenic microorganisms also cause other serious infections in the body.
Some so called sexual transmitted diseases may actually be transmitted through drinking water or contact with
contaminated biosolids and reclaimed water disposed of on food crops, parks, school grounds, and lawns.
"Recent studies have shown that patients with periodontal disease are one and a half times more likely to develop
COPD than those without periodontal disease. It is believed that the bacteria that causes periodontal disease can
travel into the lungs, causing inflammation and infection"

Accurate and current data is hard to come by, but there is enough data to notice a definite trend that
these are no longer Orphan Diseases (a disease that affects fewer than 200,000 people in the U.S.)

         Draft            PANDEMIC TABLE FOR U.S.

July 2009 (EPA)
Food allergy, defined as an adverse immunological response to food, affects more than 11 million
Americans and has doubled in incidence between 1997 and 2002. Severe anaphylaxis triggered by
reactions to foods is responsible for 150 deaths and more than 30,000 emergency room visits in the
United States per year. Despite this impact on health care expenditures, relatively little is known about the risk
factors, disease pathogenesis, or the cellular and molecular processes involved in generating food allergy. Unlike
other allergic diseases, such as asthma, eczema or rhinitis, food allergy has no current treatments or therapies
and patients are left with the only options being strict food avoidance and injectable epinephrine for treatment of
responses during accidental exposure. The incidence of food allergy is increasing at an alarming rate, and so
research into pathogenesis and treatment is absolutely paramount. The literature supports a central role of the
Th2-induced allergen-specific IgE in the pathogenesis of allergic disorders. However, mounting evidence
supports the lack of correlation between specific IgE levels and incidence, severity or threshold of
responsiveness in food allergy. These findings led us to question the role of allergen-specific IgG in the
regulation of Th2 differentiation and the pathogenesis of allergic disorders.
http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncer_abstracts/index.cfm/fuseaction/display.abstractDetail/abstract/8980/report/0

In 1981 EPA came up with the policy of Utilization of Municipal Wastewater and Sludge for Land
Reclamation and Biomass Production. However, EPA, FDA, and USDA issued a beneficial sewage sludge
statement SW905, which promoted sludge use on food crops. In 1984 - EPA issued beneficial sewage
sludge use policy WH-595. In 1989 EPA started promoting the proposed part 503 for sludge use. In 1991,
EPA created the Interagency Policy on Beneficial Use of Municipal Sewage Sludge on Federal Lands, In
1993, EPA issued the part 503 beneficial sludge use regulation. In 1994, it created a public relations
campaign run by the Water Environment Federation to gain public acceptance of sludge use as a
fertilizer on food crops school yards and home lawns and changed the name to biosolids.

In spite of its 1981 statement promoting sludge as a beneficial fertilizer, it was apparent that farmers and
home owner's were reluctant to used hazardous waste contaminated products as long as it was labeled
as such. EPA began the process to change the nature of waste disposal and put our farms and food
supply and health at risk,with one paragraph:

EPA said, "We add this paragraph to respond to public comments that merely to designate a recycling
activity as "hazardous waste management" is immediately to stigmatize it. The Agency is somewhat
skeptical that a redesignation will significantly affect the volume of recycling or that public response to
hazardous waste recycling necessarily is negative. However, to avoid conceivable stigmatization, we are
willing to re-name recycled hazardous waste "regulated recyclable materials." (FR. 48, #65, p. 14493,
April 4, 1983) Some EPA scientist had reservations about putting any organic hazardous waste on the
land as well as metals, even though it was allowed in limited and very controlled conditions. It was the,
"---Agency's philosophy that applying hazardous waste to the soil is a waste management practice
reserved for those (organic) waste streams that can be treated in a soil system." EPA realized that:
"Unless the practice is carefully defined and regulated, irresponsible parties may try to characterize
indiscriminate dumping of waste as land treatment."

Food poisoning	1986 2 million	1994 33 million	1997 81 million	1999 76 million
COPD Cigarette smoking is down, COPD cases are increasing			2002 119,000 deaths 726,000 hospitalized 1.5 million Emer. treat + 8 million Drs. treat		2007 24 million cases
Asthma Asthma affects over 20 million people, including adults, with cases jumping 75% from 1980 to 1994. It's time to find out the real facts and learn valuable management skills.	1980 3.6% children 0-17 years		1995 7.5% children 0-17 years	2004-2005 Children 0-17 yr Black – 12.7% White – 8.0% Puerto Rican – 19.2% 6.5 million children 15.7 million adults
Flu-like deaths	70-80s 5,600 year		92-97 27,000 year	97-98 season 51,296
Necrotizing fastitis "flesh eating" Strep and Staph MRSA	1985 - 1990 128 cases in 10 hospitals in Tucson. AZ area		Oct-Dec 1997 1,562 cases in 36 hospitals in US & Canadian Hosp. 97 cases in AZ	2003 300 cases in 1 Tucson hospital	2005 1,024 in 2 Tucson hospitals out of 10
Washinton MRSA	1997 141 cases	1999 525 cases	2001 1,223 cases	2003 2,226 cases	2007 4,643 cases
Acid Reflux.			1989 -1999 29,000 to 34,000 operations
Gastroenteritis			1998 360 million cases of diarrhea	2005 592,000 infants and young children <5 years old die each year from rotavirus diarrhea,	3 to 6 million children die each year.
organ transplants		1992 waiting list 20,000		2002 waiting list 79,523	2007 waiting list 100,000
Staph MRSA infections- Hosp. discharges	1993 1,900	1995 38,100		2000 128,500	2005 368,800
esophageal cancer	1981 approx 1,750 Cases		2001 7,000 cases		July 2007 350 percent increase in past 10 - 15 years
Papillomasvirus reproductive organ cancer Male & female					25 million young girls and women infected
Papillomasvirus Oral cancer Mouth & throat		1995 less than <6,000 case annually		2005 more than >8,000 case annually
Pathogenic heart disease				2004 24.7 million diagnosed 654,092 deaths
Pathogenic Pneumonia			1999 3 million infections 60,000 deaths
Kidney disease	1988-1994 14.5% U.S. Population		1999-2004 16.8% U.S Population 15.9% increase	2000 47,000 waiting kidney transplant	350,000 endstage renal disease 67,000 die each year
Brain eating Amoeba Naegleria-fowleri	1965 4 deaths Australia		1995 to 2004. 23 deaths U.S.		2007 (9 months) 6 deaths U.S.
Thyroiditis					2007 14 million
Bacterial colitis colectomy rate Deaths	1993 261 per 100,000 discharged persons 1.2 per 100,00 20.3 per 100,000			2003 546 per 100,000 discharged persons 3.4 per 100,00 50.2 per 100,000
Premature Births					2006 12.8 percent of births in 2006 540,000 babies

0157:H7 E. coli infections Humans	1975 First documented human infection	1997 20,000	1999 73,000 3% of food borne deaths	2003 75,000	2005 79,420
0157:H7 E. coli deaths	1982-1992 15 deaths	1997 200-250 deaths	1999 61 (???)
E. coli -ESBL Kills 10-14%				Britain 2003 First appeared affecting elderly women	Britain 2007 Infects 30,000 people a year. younger patients
0157:H7 E. coli infected cattle	1982 USDA survey "0"		2002 28% animals at slaughter
Salmonella	1979-1989 CDC noted trend in increased antibiotic resistants - Reported 1984 in humans 1988 in cattle	1990--1995. CDC noted trend in infected fruits and vegetables	2002 31% of foodborne deaths
Salmonella deaths	case-fatality rate of 3%.
Clostridium C. difficile	1999 5.7 deaths per million	2000 134,000 Infections hospital stays	2004 23.7 deaths per million	2005 291 infections hospital stays	2008 500,000 infections hospital stays
Norovirus					2007 Human Norovius found in cattle and meat
Listeria	1987 1,600 cases with 415 deaths per year in the US.				2007 2,500 cases with 500 deaths per year in U.S.
Treponema, also found in dental bofilm Syphilis			2000 2.1 per 100,000	2006 9,756 cases	2007 7 yr / 76% increase 11,181 cases
Treponema Syphilis - black men					21.5 cases per 100,000, 99% increase / since 2003

Autism in California	1983-85 7.5 per 10,000 2,778 cases	1993-95 20.2 per 10,000	Dec 1998, 10,360 cases	Dec 2002 20,377 cases	June 2007 34,656 cases
ADHD neurobiological disorder	4-5 in 10,000	2000 CDC -6.6 per 1,000	2002 3-7% children 4% adults CDC-6.7 per 1000	2003 2.5 mil- ages 4-17 on medication -------------------------- Estimated 32% receive consistent treatment in 2007	2007 CDC avg. 1 in 150 of eight year olds ---------------------------- 8.7% of 8-15 years old, yet, only 47.9% diagnosed
Bipolar disorder children 0-19 years		1994-1995 25 per 100,000 population		2002-2003 1003 per 100,000 population
Bipolar disorder Adults 20 + years		1994-1995 905 per 100,000 population		2002-2003 1,679 per 100,000 population
Suicides	45-to-54-year-olds increased nearly 20 percent from 1999 to 2004,			For women 45 to 54, the rate leapt 31 percent.