with counties in North Carolina and Iowa among worst-affected Cities where tap water is laced with toxic 'forever chemicals' have above-average rates of disease and pregnancy complications, a DailyMail.com analysis shows.
The majority of neighborhoods with the highest levels of PFAS chemicals in drinking water suffer more cancer diagnoses and deaths than the rest of the country each year and see more babies born at a dangerously low weight.
Experts said the findings were 'concerning' and that they warranted a 'national study' into whether PFAS contamination is causing serious health problems across the country, though they cautioned the correlation was not definitive proof of a link.
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are microscopic, man-made chemicals that can take thousands of years to break down in the environment or in the human body, hence the name 'forever chemicals'.