{"id":109166,"date":"2021-01-21T11:32:43","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T17:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=109166"},"modified":"2021-01-25T12:54:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T18:54:54","slug":"mississippi-state-department-of-health-offering-free-radon-gas-test-kits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/mississippi-state-department-of-health-offering-free-radon-gas-test-kits\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi State Department of Health Offering Free Radon Gas Test Kits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <strong>Mississippi State Department of Health<\/strong> (MSDH) Radon Program is partnering with the <strong>Mississippi Public Library System<\/strong> this week to offer free radon home test kits as part of <strong>Radon Action Month<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Radon is an odorless, colorless gas and is the second leading cause of lung cancer nationwide. More than 20,000 Americans die of radon-related lung cancer each year, and radon causes up to 15 percent of lung cancers worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Radon is a radioactive gas found in nature. Its source is natural uranium in the earth. Being a gas, radon moves upward out of the soil and into the air, where it can enter and accumulate in homes. Uranium is found in most soils and in granite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Test kits will be available while supplies last at the following libraries January 25-29, 2021:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Northern Mississippi<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Lee County Public Library, Tupelo<\/li><li>Starkville\/Oktibbeha Public Library, Starkville<\/li><li>Carrollton\/North Carrollton Public Library, North Carrollton<\/li><li>Elizabeth Jones Public Library, Grenada<\/li><li>Indianola\/Sunflower Public Library, Indianola<\/li><li>Greenwood\/Leflore Public Library, Greenwood<\/li><li>Humphreys County Public Library, Belzoni<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Central Mississippi<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>B.S. Ricks Public Library, Yazoo City<\/li><li>Fannie Lou Hamer Public Library, Jackson<\/li><li>Dekalb County Public Library, Dekalb<\/li><li>Attala County Public Library, Kosciusko<\/li><li>Leake County Public Library, Carthage<\/li><li>Meridian-Lauderdale Public Library, Meridian<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Southern Mississippi<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Hattiesburg Public Library, Hattiesburg<\/li><li>Poplarville Public Library, Poplarville<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) Radon Program is partnering with the Mississippi Public Library System this<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":109167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[5,18068,16144,18066,18069,18067],"class_list":["post-109166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-mississippi","tag-mississippi-public-library-system","tag-mississippi-state-department-of-health","tag-radon","tag-radon-action-month","tag-radon-program"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/RadonActionMonth.jpg?fit=620%2C320&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}