The report says people living near incinerators may be exposed to a range of toxic chemicals, by breathing in contaminated air, eating food which has been contaminated, or by skin contact with affected soil.
Children generally pick up lead in soil that has been contaminated by air pollution and dumping.
The virus can be present in the rodents' urine, droppings and saliva, and is spread to people when they breathe in air contaminated with the virus, the CDC says.
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Many environmental groups, of course, see the shale gas boom unleashed by hydrofracking and horizontal drilling technologies as more a curse than a blessing, producing contaminated water supplies and air pollution while scaring local landscapes.
The study also found that public water supply was safe and that the air was not contaminated.
Zoning laws would be rewritten so that, over time, large parcels of abandoned land would be converted into landscaped open space networks that would capture and clean storm water, improve air quality, and clean contaminated soil as well as provide new recreational opportunities like bike paths and hiking trails and create habitats for local wildlife and migrating birds.
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"Scientists do not know to what extent flu viruses spread through the air or whether infection requires physical contact with contaminated fluids or surfaces, " a summary of the report says.
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"It depends on how long they would have been in the area that's contaminated, how constant the the level of asbestos fibres in the air are, " he said.
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He said that "means worrying about the way in which the drilling takes places, it means worrying about making sure the methane is captured rather than discharged to the air and it means making sure that none of the contaminated water gets into the ground water that sometimes can fill our water supplies".
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