There are horrible headaches from a very prevalent chemical in paint, in products that clean that carpenters, mechanics, housewives, & MILITARY use  This kind? 
 
Same as for Chronic Fatigue Syndromes Look for these clues

Symptoms of Gulf War Illnesses (according to the American Legion) 

  • Chronic Fatigue

  • Signs and symptoms involving skin (including skin rashes and unusual hair loss)

  • Headache

  • Muscle pain

  • Neurological signs or symptoms (nervous system disorders which could manifest themselves in numbness in one's arms or legs, for instance)

  • Neuropsychological signs or symptoms (including memory loss)

  • Signs or symptoms involving upper or lower respiratory system

  • Sleep disturbances

  • Gastrointestinal signs or symptoms (including recurrent diarrhea and constipation)

  • Cardiovascular signs or symptoms

  • Menstrual disorders 

 
After oil, which does not seem to be a primary cause of harm for most EVOS workers OR 'gulf war syndrome' vets ... though it is harmful....

the only chemical exposure that is the same for gulf war vets and Exxon Valdez oil spill cleanup workers ... is 2-butoxyethanol.

Why health of Valdez citizens would point it out:

A little understood aspect of the 2-butoxyethanol chemical is its second hand exposure.  Not only were the chemicals drug through Valdez to go to the beaches & for cleanup ... but also the workers would come back to Valdez, and go to our shops, etc.  Those that went to small offices like the tax offices, the barber shops, the bars, the chiropractor's office would affect the health of Valdez citizens.

Our chiropractor died of liver cancer, but before that he had melanoma eye cancer in 1992.  People would be getting rid of the chemical as best they could .... Vapors in one's respiration is the right exposure for another to get into their eyes.

Even those who didn't work directly with the chemical could have it blown into their eyes on the worksite.

AK DEC head in those days died of Chronic Lymphocydic Leukemia.  I've heard of that before, too - CLL

Just the things that our City Council members came down with were things like an odd leukemia, pancreatic cancer, liver cancer.

& other things have been showing up like Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma (also brain tumors, diabetes)

Elders Lost - Chenega Village and on and on and on.  We need to find out what happened to those who lived in Valdez in 1989.  Many have died before their time of the same kinds of things that happened to our 'gulf war syndrome' vets

Why does health of People in Valdez since 1989 matter ?

Margaret Diann

3-24-06 was?