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Three years on, still assessing the health, legal aspects of Winston-Salem fertilizer plant fire

NC Health News

Nearly 6,500 people were told to flee their homes in the middle of the night for their health and safety. The company also violated Federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration standards related to its storage of ammonium nitrate. Did the fire affect health? Businesses in the area were forced to close for several days.

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Op-ed: Why funding for the environmental justice movement must be anti-racist

Environmental Health News

Wed trained them to collect data and facilitate workshops in which they worked with community members from nearby environmental justice communities. What I do know is that several of my community members also suffer from health problems that will be with our bodies until we die.

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How factors like your location, job or ethnicity can damage your health

UK Health Security

The skyline of Middlesbrough town centre, with industrial cooling towers in the background Health inequalities are avoidable differences in health across our populations. You can suffer health inequalities because of where you were born or live, your ethnicity, or even because of your job. This report is just the start.

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COVID-19 in 2025: ‘A Constant Threat, but a Manageable One’

BU School of Public Health Blog

March 8, 2025 Jillian McKoy Twitter Facebook Five years after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, the virus has largely receded from public conversation and daily routinesand when it does arise, its often referenced in the past tense. Credit: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.