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Posted Tue Nov 24 2009: from Washington Post:
Six years later, gender-bending fish in our water supply remain a mystery http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1259072752
 What's the problem with the Potomac River -- and could whatever it is spell problems for those of us who drink its water? In 2003, scientists discovered something startling in the Potomac, from which at least 3 million Washington area residents get their drinking water: Male fish were growing eggs. But six years later, a government-led research effort still hasn't answered those two questions. Scientists say they still aren't sure which pollutants are altering the fish, or whether the discovery poses any threat to people's health. The job is not easy: Scientists are looking for wisps of hormone-mimicking pollutants in the Potomac's vast, moving soup.
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'Doc Jim says:
I would imagine these intersex fish are a mystery to themselves.

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