Military families say they were ill months before jet-fuel leak brought scrutiny to Pearl Harbor’s tap water

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As U.S. military officials have scrambled to address a public health crisis stemming from the discovery of jet fuel in the tap water supply at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii, multiple residents there have come forward with claims of unexplained illness predating the Navy’s notification last month that thousands of households had been exposed to dangerous amounts of petroleum hydrocarbons.

December 20, 2021: Military families say they were ill months before jet-fuel leak brought scrutiny to Pearl Harbor’s tap water, The Washington Post