Fracking Chemical Exposure Tied To Premature Births, Long-Term Reproductive Health Consequences.

Well” blog reported that “living near hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, operations” may be tied to “premature births,” according to research published Sept. 30 in the journal Epidemiology. The study of “10,496 singleton births by 9,384 mothers from 2009 to 2013 in Pennsylvania” revealed that “the 25 percent of mothers most exposed to fracking were 40 percent more likely to give birth preterm...than the quarter least exposed.” http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/14/fracking-tied-to-premature-births/?ref=health&_r=0