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Toxic
Injury Awareness and Education Month
People of all ages throughout the world have developed
illnesses from Toxic Injury, also referred to by some as
Chemically Induced Illness.
Toxic Chemical Injury is
often characterized by heightened sensitivity to very small
amounts of air pollution, petrochemicals, and other toxins
found in our everyday products and environment. It can be
caused by short-term or chronic exposure to one or more
chemicals, frequently pesticides, and solvents and can start
at any age.
Toxic Injury may include
multiple, often disabling illnesses, affecting the
respiratory, central nervous (brain), immune, musuloskeletal,
porphyrin, energy metabolism, and endocrine systems and can be
life threatening.
Toxic Injury is a chronic
debilitating condition for which there is no known cure,
causing serious financial, employment, learning, housing,
health, social, and other consequences.
There are diagnostic codes
readily available for toxic effects of many chemicals found in
our everyday environment.
Those suffering with Toxic
Injury deserve the same rights, acknowledgment, respect,
support, and help allotted to other illnesses and
disabilities.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Frank H.
Murkowski, Governor of the State of Alaska, do hereby proclaim
May, 2006 as:
Toxic Injury Awareness
and Education Month in Alaska, and ask for support of
increased awareness, education, understanding, and research
into the causes, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of Toxic
Injury.
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