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Health Care Advocates Walk the 'Asthma Trail' in Central Valley

KQED News Staff

Oct 1, 2012 at

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Members of SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West are calling attention to the high rates of asthma in the state's Central Valley by walking the "Asthma Trail" this week. Ultimately, they'll end up in Sacramento to do some lobbying. But first, health care advocates are making several stops in Central Valley communities where more than one in five children suffers from the disease.

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