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Embalmers' Exposure To Formldehyde Linked To Increased Risk Of Developing ALS

Cecille Marie Gumban   |

Jul 15, 2015 06:00 AM EDT

There is always a drawback for those people who work with chemicals. This is awfully true when researchers from the Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health discovered that people who use formaldehyde in embalming corpses in funeral homes are at increased risk for developing ALS or amyotropic lateral sclerosis, more commonly known as the Lou Gehrig's disease.