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Article: Town suspects water wells after several children are diagnosed with cancer.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- May 15, 1998
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TOMS RIVER, N.J. _ Children are dying here, prey to a silent killer that could be lurking in the ground, attacking young victims in infancy, or suddenly in their teen-age years.
Some parents believe this killer seeps into their homes in every drop of water their children bring to their lips, every vapor they inhale while they bathe.
There is no method to its madness. But in nine years, it has targeted dozens of youth in the Ocean County communities of Toms River and Dover Township, where there has been a cluster of bone and brain cancer. Now, the killer has claimed five more children, who local advocacy groups claim have been diagnosed in recent ...