{"id":3013,"date":"2010-02-23T22:26:26","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T11:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=3013"},"modified":"2010-02-23T22:26:26","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T11:26:26","slug":"gum-leaves-poison-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2010\/02\/23\/gum-leaves-poison-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Gum leaves poison water?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- #START MAIN COLUMNS --><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"article-font-content\">Last night I watched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/austory\/content\/2007\/s2822392.htm\">Something in the Water Part 2<\/a> on ABC&#8217;s <em>Australian Story<\/em> and learnt of the efforts of a local GP in Tasmania&#8217;s North East seeking\u00a0to explain unusual health problems in animals and humans.\u00a0Interestingly the research found a most unexpected result:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong>NATURAL substances contained in the leaves of plantation trees growing upstream of St Helens may be poisoning the town&#8217;s drinking water.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em>On national TV last night, St Helens doctor Alison Bleaney said toxicity tests she had helped fund indicated river &#8220;scum&#8221; or foam from plantations in the Georges River catchment might be causing inexplicable cancer clusters and health problems.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0More research is needed and I trust it will be speedily undertaken to clarify the issue and if necessary action\u00a0taken\u00a0promptly to address any health issues: be they for oysters, Tasmanian Devils\u00a0or human beings.<\/p>\n<p>See\u00a0full report in today&#8217;s Mercury by Sue Neales,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themercury.com.au\/article\/2010\/02\/23\/129601_most-popular-stories.html\">Tree farm cancer &#8216;link&#8217;<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I watched Something in the Water Part 2 on ABC&#8217;s Australian Story and learnt of the efforts of a local GP in Tasmania&#8217;s North East seeking\u00a0to explain unusual health problems in animals and humans.\u00a0Interestingly the research found a &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2010\/02\/23\/gum-leaves-poison-water\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3013"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3029,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013\/revisions\/3029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}