Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry tells three Pennsylvania Counties to get Tested for Rare Blood Cancer

"The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry confirmed in August 2008 that a statistically significant number of people living around the area of Ben Titus Road in Rush Township between Hazleton and Tamaqua have been diagnosed with polycythemia vera, or PV, a disorder that causes bone marrow to produce too many red blood cells.

Because the same study identified two smaller, but still statistically significant, clusters of the disorder - one south of Frackville and one near Jim Thorpe - anyone living within the "greater hot zone area" is urged to participate in the blood sample testing.

The hot zones, according to Joseph Murphy, a native of the Carbon County village of Hauto and a member of the study's Community Action Group, do not have absolute boundaries. The zones are general areas radiating 10 to 20 miles or more from the center of the confirmed cluster areas"

Nice to know.. I'm in the 'hot zone' ..