contamination

"Explore the causes and consequences of the devastating water crisis in Flint, Michigan"--Provided by publisher.

A high-priced personal injury attorney represents eight families whose children died of leukemia after large corporations let toxic waste leak into the water supply in the Boston area. He puts his career, reputation and all that he owns on the line for the rights of his clients.

The President's son and daughter are abducted, and Detective Alex Cross is one of the first on the scene, but someone very high-up is using the FBI, Secret Service, and CIA to keep him off the case and in the dark and meanwhile, a deadly contagion in the water supply cripples half of the capital, and Alex discovers that someone may be about to unleash the most devastating attack the United States has ever experienced.

Tells how the SV40 monkey virus came to contaminate polio vaccine administered between 1953 and 1964, examines efforts to discover the link between SV40 and cancers found in adults and children who received the vaccine, and discusses why the government downplayed the danger posed by SV40 to humans.

Follows a lawsuit brought against W.R. Grace & Co. for contaminating the drinking water in Woburn, Massachusetts that took nine years to settle.

Follows a lawsuit brought against W.R. Grace & Co. for contaminating the drinking water in Woburn, Massachusetts.