PITTSBURGH (AP) — A coroner has found elevated levels of cadmium in 10 people who have recently died in a rural Pennsylvania county, adding to the mystery about the presence of the toxic metal.
Ever since 61-year-old Russell Repine was found to have mysteriously died in March 2002 of cadmium poisoning, Coroner Thomas Streams has tested for toxic levels of the metal in all autopsies in Indiana County, in western Pennsylvania.
Streams and state police announced Friday in Indiana, about 50 miles east of Pittsburgh, that 10 other people have tested positive for elevated levels of cadmium.