Deadly Slums in the U.S. Story aired: Friday, October 10, 2003
When the subject is how deadly urban slums in America can be, you might imagine that means drug overdoses and gunshot wounds. However, in this coming Sunday's New York Times Magazine, journalist Helen Epstein explores what's even more lethal for America's urban poor. It's not shootings, drugs, AIDS, nor diseases caused by germs in dirty air, bacteria, and viruses.
The real killers are heart disease, kidney disease, diabetes, asthma, and cancer, and the victims are young. Among the ages of some of the people Helen Epstein spoke with: 48, 22, 36.
