Category
page 1Health disasters in the United States
Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
1932—1972 human experiment in Alabama, USA
opioid epidemic in the United States
ongoing and extensive overuse of opioid medications, both from medical prescriptions and from illegal sources, which began in the United States in the late 1990s, when opioids were increasingly prescribed for pain management
Flint water crisis
contamination by lead of water supply in Flint, Michigan
Love Canal
former neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York, United States
Chicago Tylenol murders
string of murders in Chicago in 1982 involving poisoned Tylenol medicine
1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack
bioterror attack

health effects arising from the September 11 attacks
health effects 9/11 has caused
Elixir sulfanilamide
Improperly prepared sulfanilamide medicine that caused mass poisoning in the US in 1937
typhus epidemic of 1847
disease outbreak in North America
Hawks Nest Tunnel Disaster
tunnel in West Virginia where hundreds of workers contracted silicosis