{"id":84853,"date":"2026-07-27T08:43:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T12:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=84853"},"modified":"2026-07-27T08:43:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T12:43:54","slug":"southern-california-suburb-alarmed-as-exceptionally-rare-cancer-sickens-multiple-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/southern-california-suburb-alarmed-as-exceptionally-rare-cancer-sickens-multiple-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern California Suburb Alarmed As \u2018Exceptionally Rare\u2019 Cancer Sickens Multiple Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From<em> The Guardian:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Concerns are growing in southern\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/california\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">California<\/a>\u00a0over a cluster of \u201cexceptionally rare\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/cancer\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">cancer<\/a>\u00a0cases that has sickened multiple children in a suburban community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Families living in the Orange county neighborhood of Ladera Ranch, home to about 26,000 people, have reported that six children in the community were diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma, Katrina Foley, the vice-chair of the county board of supervisors, said in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bos5.oc.gov\/pr-cancercluster\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">statement<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019re very concerned about pesticides that are being sprayed all around the community,\u201d Liesl Heizt told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/post\/ladera-ranch-cluster-child-cancer-cases-prompts-residents-speak-town-hall\/19557533\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">ABC7<\/a>. \u201cThere\u2019s so many times that I walk around and they\u2019re spraying, and I ask what they\u2019re spraying and they\u2019re not telling us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Guardian: Concerns are growing in southern\u00a0California\u00a0over a cluster of \u201cexceptionally rare\u201d\u00a0cancer\u00a0cases that has sickened multiple children in a.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84855,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84853\/revisions\/84855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}