Almost 200 former students and teachers of Sydney's Camden High School have signed on to a planned class action over toxic substances.
The school was built on the site of a former gasworks and after dangerous chemicals were discovered in 2001, the school was moved.
The plaintiffs have experienced high levels of cancer, birth defects and tumours and want an investigation into a possible link to the substances, ABC reports.
Lead plaintiff Leonie Curry, 41, set up a Facebook page for former students and teachers to share their experiences.
The page, which now has 1438 members, has been swamped with messages.
“Students and teachers and their family members are growing by the second, what is astonishing to me is the amount of people. The number of students who I stood beside who are sick or have passed is very sad....CHS was good to me and I did enjoy my schooling but this is so disheartening and emotional,” former student Joanne Pirrone posted on the page.
Mrs Curry, who is dying of a brain tumour, said her close friend Raelean Borg died last year of breast cancer.
Former art teacher Dale Hodges died in 2007 of thyroid and ovarian cancer after teaching at the school for 18 years.
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