Don't forget, there is a strong 'second hand' solvent exposure with 2-butoxyethanol (n-butyl ether chemicals)  The 'gulf war' troops wondered why their children born before the 90-91 war & their spouses were coming down with the same 'symptoms' 

Most likely there would be a realization that the immune system is overactive ... but not going after bacteria as it should - Attacking the person, & some viruses.  The immune system becomes instantly autoimmune.  And there are a whole host of autoimmune issues to deal with after it starts with the red blood cells:  test for autoimmune hemolytic anemia.

Those at home (parents) or those who worked the Exxon Valdez oil spill, but in an office job, might have a lot of people who were strongly exposed coming through to get their pay checks ... such as the Corexit trials with NORCON.  The office people could get exposed 'second hand'

I wonder whether the post office workers could be exposed 2nd hand?

I wonder about this exposure for the Chiropractor in Valdez in 1989:  Lee Olkjer came down with melanoma eye cancer in 1992 and a rare cancer some years later that took his life. At the memorial service his wife shared how this typically mild mannered man had become so 'grouchy; & that that was hurtful to her.

I wonder about any barbers or beauticians of that day.   One died of 'heart attack' and was said to have heart ailments.  However, maybe a 'heart attack' is advance stages of autoimmune hemolytic anemia:  collapse from lack of blood, or rapid heart beat?

I wonder about this exposure for Helen Wade who had leukemia.  (Her son told me that the doctors were concerned about some odd things going on in her blood.)  Bob Wade told me that he worked in the Corexit trials.  He was walking with a cane at Helen's memorial service.  He died not long after.

After someone dies, people say, "Oh, well it doesn't matter any more.  He/she is dead, what good would it do to check into this any more?"

That's what the family of Amelio Lopez seems to say. (Died at 52 a couple of years ago) He & his co-worker, Norm Lang - who died before he did, both did the same job spraying the beaches from their boat in 1989.  They both died of kidney failure; had high blood sugar. (Maybe a sign of endocrine disruption, not 'diabetes')

I've wondered about Steve Provant.  He came from EPA to be head of Alaska's DEC in Valdez in 1989.  He came down with CLL and died during a gall bladder surgery because his immune system was not functioning properly?  His wife shared, "Oh couldn't be, Steve was a chemist.  He always wore the protective suits.  Yes, but did he wear eye goggles?

Couldn't our troops add goggles to their list of protective equipment ... to use when around jets taking off & landing & during all cleaning jobs?

I've wondered about Clyde Ruhl who had esophageal cancer (one that the WHO says this chemical can cause)  His blood sugar was extremely elevated and his sicknesses began in 1990.  As a surveyor who knows where he wandered about.  There were some places where the chemical brought in to Valdez had spilled.  But who knows where?  He was having an operation to cut off his 2nd leg when he died.  How he and his family must have suffered.  Did he do surveying at Chenega like his son is doing in 05?  

I've wondered about Del Welch who had been in charge of all the landing gear for Knight Island 135B  211E (bioremediation experiments).  After he retired & moved from Valdez, he came down with 4 types of cancer:  bone, liver, lymph and lung.  Excuse me, but the fact that he smoked was irrelevant to these cancers when exposure to 2-butoxyaethanol was there, too.  Did he have fatigue?  grouchiness since 1989?  the list? Now his co-worker who told me about Del's job in 1989 ... how is he doing?  Like most people who are chemically poisoned, they look fine.  But they're not.

I've wondered about Slim Blood. He lived here in 1989 & helped with the Lynden Transport building and had a fuel company.  After moving to Fairbanks he had both kidney and liver problems before dying.  Of the flu, they said, because of his weakened condition (?)

Many in our town wonder why there is so much more brain cancer or brain tumors in the past 15+ years.  Which way does the wind blow?  Is 2-butoxyethanol in the air, too?

I've wondered about Howard Chaffin, Sr who died last year of lung & brain tumors.  His grand daughter told me he had tumors throughout his body.  As a mechanic, could he have had exposure to 2-butoxyethanol type cleaners? It's in brake fluid and lots of things that mechanics use! If so, he should have had some onset of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Or, did his son who worked on the Oil Spill cleanup come to live with him after 1989?

How many college students across our land may have roomed with one of these 1000 Exxon Valdez oil spill workers used in the 'bioremediation' experiment, 1989-90.  Then they could have been exposed to 2-butoxyethanol Second hand?  How would they ever find out that this was the chemical that caused short term memory loss, difficulty concentrating, depression, sleeplessness, etc and FATIGUE?  The chemical that robbed them of their life?

I go to funerals now-a-days.  Often I hear 'the signs' of this chemical's harm.

Well, the medical proof of this chemical may still be there, if anyone was looking for 'the signs.'  I am suggesting that this be looked into more - for the benefit of our loved ones today  .... for the benefit of future generations.

How long can we put up with this great loss of our human resource?  How long can our schools take more and more children with learning disabilities and birth defects?  How long can we put up with losing our leadership and our parents and grand parents before their time?  Some parents won't be grandparents when their child has had too much to this chemical:  a burden no one should bear!

Many cancers and birth defects? Researchers suspect so, but the USA right now, doesn't know as much as the World Health Organization does.

What some other EVOS workers have to share

The Navy helped with the Corexit trials

So did DEC

The USCG helped with monitoring the Bioremediation Experiment.

These all have essential, valuable medical information for our society.

There must be a study!

What did Exxon's Chemist say about Inipol EAP 22?

More of a surfactant than a fertilizer C:N:P = 62:5:1 that's bad *