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The common air pollutant benzene has been the subject of a recent study in Texas. It seems that women who live in Texas neighborhoods that have higher levels of benzene due to refineries and automobile exhaust have been found to have a higher chance of giving birth to babies with a serious neurological birth defect. Benzene has long been known to be highly toxic and related to cancer and immune system damage. This new study performed by a team of researchers from the University of Texas School of Public Health and the Texas Department of State Health Services has linked benzene for the first time to a birth defect that proves in more than one way that air pollution can cause harm to a fetus. The results of this study show that pregnant women exposed to high levels of benzene had up to a two times greater risk of giving…
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