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CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — Sen. Kay Hagan says she is working to get answers about past water contamination at a North Carolina Marine base. Federal health officials said two weeks ago they were withdrawing a 1997 assessment of health effects from the water contamination at Camp Lejeune because of omissions and scientific inaccuracy. The past statement had said the chemicals posed little or no cancer risk to people at Camp Lejeune. Health officials now believe that as many as 1 million people may have been exposed to water toxins over a span of about three decades before the wells were closed 22 years ago.
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