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Fig. 10.8
Wood County fields a 1 mile buffer around permitted fields
weight loss, insomnia, fatigue, weakness, and general ill feeling. Respondents
were asked to indicate on the questionnaire if they had been diagnosed with
chronic diseases by a physician: asthma, emphysema, Crohn's disease, migraine
headache, ulcerative colitis, chronic bronchitis, irritable bowel syndrome, allergies,
multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, scleroderma, skin disease, poliomyeli-
tis, autism, skin cancer, and, arthritis/osteoarthritis. Lastly, physician diagnosed
acute diseases listed on the questionnaire included: leptospirosis, salmonellosis,
shigellosis, typhoid fever, hepatitis A, poliomyelitis, amoebiasis, bronchitis, pneu-
monia, upper respiratory infection, lower respiratory infection, cold, giardiasis, and
gastroenteritis.
