Environmental Health
Environmental Health
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Environmental Health Mission Area defines the pathways of chemical and microbial disease agents in the environment needed to understand ecological and human exposures and subsequent health outcomes.
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Investigating Lung Disease in Military Veterans
Six years ago, veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan had trouble breathing normally. The list of potential causes that soldiers were exposed to seemed endless: smoke from burn pits used for trash disposal, desert dust, diesel generator exhaust, humidity and temperature extremes, explosives, and city trash and sewage.