Health
Vic council’s mozzie spraying ‘reckless’ – The West Australian
A senate inquiry into a possible cancer cluster on Victoria’s Bellarine Peninsula has heard the council regularly sprayed mosquitoes near parks and schools.
More than a third of the students from Kristie Ainsworth’s Barwon Heads primary school class have been diagnosed with cancer or autoimmune diseases.
Ms Ainsworth herself was diagnosed with the blood cancer Hodgkin’s lymphoma when she was 17, she has told a Senate inquiry into a possible cancer cluster at Victoria’s Bellarine Peninsula.
“There are so many young people who have died,” she told the inquiry at Barwon Heads on Tuesday.
Ms Ainsworth and many other residents blame their illnesses on the…
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