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Tina Cordova, co-founder of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium, talks to residents about the cancellation of the TV series Manhattan and the health surveys they are circulating around the community.(Photo: Tara Melton/Daily News)
TULAROSAA aA The Tularosa Basin Downwinders are on a mission to gather health surveys from New Mexico residents toA detailing their personal andA family history with cancer.
TheA Downwinders, who believe the Trinity test changed the gene pools of residents in surrounding communities, leaving a cluster of cancer and illness in the descendants of those who witnessed the atomic bomb, have already collected 650 health surveys from the Tularosa and Alamogordo area.
