The island’s private drinking water supplies were polluted by use of firefighting foams containing ‘forever chemicals’
  • thehatfox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    7 hours ago

    I was told the future would be all flying cars and food in pills.

    But instead it’s industrial pollution and bloodletting.

  • GreatAlbatrossOPMAEnglish
    8·
    9 hours ago

    The bioaccumilation of PFAS in mortal blood is concerning for me and my colleagues.
    It would be very sad to live for 600 years, only to be killed off by fire suppressant.

  • GoodShowSirEnglish
    6·
    10 hours ago

    Huh interesting, as someone who has to bloodlet regularly… nice to know my PFAS levels should be a bit lower.

    Additionally - not good people are having to do it because of this. Just further scares me of the quality of our drinking water by all our crazy water providers.

    • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      9 hours ago

      I’m curious - why would someone need to bloodlet? I’m ignorant AF on this but I thought this was like, dark ages medicine?

      • teft@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        9 hours ago

        It’s used therapeutically for hemochromatosis which is too much iron in your blood.

        • GoodShowSirEnglish
          5·
          9 hours ago

          Yeah exactly this. Have the one condition were leeches would have actually been useful :D

    • GreatAlbatrossOPMAEnglish
      2·
      10 hours ago

      Always nice to have a silver lining!
      I really don’t want to think about a 10 year future where everyone has to go through this.