Details: Fallon, Nevada, is a small town of just 7,000, fifty miles northeast of Carson City, Nevada, that seemed to be the perfect place to start a family. However, between 1997 and 2002, seventeen children in this rural town have been diagnosed with nearly identical cancer, three of which eventually would die. The first case was of Dustin Gross in 1997, whose family noticed one day that he had odd bruises all over his body along with little red blood specks on the surface of his skin, and after his blood was drawn, doctors told his family that he had acute lymphoblastic leukemia that usually afflicts children between the ages of 2 and 9. It causes the production of millions of defective white blood cells, destroying the immune system, and can be fatal, so Dustin immediately went under ag
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