CDC Reacted Too Late to Formaldahyde in FEMA Trailers

March 4, 2008 by MedHeadlines  
Filed under CDC, Family, Lifestyle, Poisoning, Prevention

It looks like FEMA is in trouble again. The CDC is now saying that tests on hundreds of FEMA trailers for victims of disaster had formaldehyde levels five times higher than what is normal. The results are making it necessary to increase the effort to move 35,000 families out of the trailers but this should have happened much earlier. Read more

FEMA Misuses Funds

February 21, 2008 by MedHeadlines  
Filed under Lifestyle

Recent reports cite a blatant misspending of US government taxpayer funds immediately following the aftermath of the 2004 and 2005 Hurricane seasons which included the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina. FEMA took the money that was acquired from the sale of hundreds of thousands of trailers which had been used as temporary shelters for victims of the storms. Read more

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