A research endocrinologist from a study University in San Francisco said he had been approached by a New York group of Exxon Valdez Oil Spill cleanup workers to assist them in a lawsuit. 

Does this mean they have determined that endocrine damage is a primary damage to these?

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  10-19-03  Slim, do you have headaches?  "Ever since 1990 I have had headaches and they are getting worse and worse.  It is a deep hurt - I can't describe it - at the back of the head, sometimes down my neck and across my shoulders; also in my eyes (I'm legally blind now). I can feel it 'thump' thump'  It is really miserable."

Heart beats very rapidly, too.

    Slim also described that, "in 1989 at the red bagging area they would bring in the blue 55 gallon drums and the night crew often had the job, as he did, of cutting off the lids and then steam cleaning the barrels.  They would lay them on their side and steam clean them; this would be the Dayville Dump area.   Then they would set the barrels around here 'n there for trash barrels. The fumes would gag a goat!"  (Worst exposure possible with 2-butoxyethanol is vapors in eyes.)  

At the time he worked for Price-Ahtna. (Corexit barrels)  He also described a very good worker named Jessie, a Mexican man that he worked with then.  Slim said he has had fainting spells and blacking out spells, can't keep food down, hands are jaundiced-colored & don't heal up.  Three of his heart chambers were swollen to double their normal size.  Doctors had no explanation (July, 2003).  He says he can't keep any moisture in his skin, and his circulation is not good.

Other headaches

"The human toll alone is not worth it!"

Dr. John Middaugh, Alaska State Dept of Epidemiology - 1989   

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