Sometimes people are said to have died from a 

heart attack or by leukemia

 when instead  

it is more likely collapse 

from not having enough blood cells.

(?) 

Should  the Anchorage Daily News say when people worked on the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill cleanup when they give an obituary? 

Does anyone know what the difference is in the blood when someone gets leukemia non-oil related, and when it's related to the oil... as in this man,  "H" ... who only had one solid week's exposure end of March, 1989.  How long after exposure before the blood counts are down?  aplastic anemia www.valdezlink.com/editor.htm (per literature on benzene)
 

Died October, 1998:  H's blood counts shared by wife

WBC  Normal  4.5-10.7                4/98 = 1.7   6/98=3.2   June 29 = 3.1   July 23 = 2.4    July 27 = 1

RBC             4.5-6                      3.59                  3.39                2.87                3.62               2.99

PLT         150-450                    191                    37                     36                                       22

 

In H's case, he was said to have died from leukemia.

 But where are the elevated white blood cell counts? 

Does this look like he had low red blood cells, and almost no WBCs and PLTs?

What would a second medical review of his records say?

What should our EVOS people be tested for when exposed to the oil? *

 http://www.valdezlink.com/inipol/msds_crude_oil.htm 

Benzene Hazard sheet http://www.state.nj.us/health/eoh/rtkweb/0197.pdf  &  http://www.valdezlink.com/benzene.htm 

Dr. Rea will tell doctors or limited individuals, if appropriate, what lab he uses, and what additional testing he would order... for chemicals... or for oil  www.valdezlink.com/doc_general.htm 

Thought:  If the workers 

exposed to too much 2-butoxyethanol or too much benzene in the oil

 

come down with other complications, 

they will still have either

 

hemolytic anemia

     

or 

  

aplastic anemia as well.

 

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