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Asbestos exposure may have sickened child

Friday, June 12th, 2009

Six-year-old Calina Wesley fell seriously ill while living in her former home at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas. Calina’s mother, Melissa Wesley, has come forward with horrifying stories of the housing conditions she and her family endured while in Texas.

Wesley believes that the excessive amount of toxins present in their home caused her daughter’s mysterious illness. The house they lived in was filled with asbestos, mushy walls, and black mold.

By the time they moved to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Calina was very sick and suffering more than 100 seizures a day, during which her brain could not receive oxygen. She has the mental capacity of a child half her age and can no longer recite the alphabet.
Asbestos exposure has been linked to various forms of cancer, including mesothelioma.

The Wesleys hope that releasing their story will encourage others in the neighborhood to do so as well. Raising awareness may get parents to remove their children from dangerous environments before they suffer as Calina has.

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KBR denies it exposed soldiers to toxins

Monday, January 5th, 2009

Some American soldiers are accusing the military contractor Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR) of putting their lives at risk by exposing them to toxic substances.

buy Captain Ron In April of 2003, James Gentry arrived in Southern Iraq to take command of more than 600 Indiana National Guardsmen who were protecting KBR contractors working at a local watering plant.

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“We didn’t question what we were doing, we just knew we had to provide a security service for the KBR,” said Battalion Cmdr. Gentry. But today, James Gentry is dying from a rare form of lung cancer as a result of months of inhaling hexavalent chromium, an orange dust that is part of a toxic chemical found all over the plant.

At least one other Indiana guardsman has already died from lung cancer, and others are suffering from tumors and rashes consistent with exposure to the toxin.

There is evidence that indicates KBR knew about the deadly exposure danger months before the soldiers were informed. Depositions from KBR employees addressed concerns about the toxin in one part of the plant as early as May of 2003. KBR minutes from a later meeting state that “60 percent of the people … exhibit symptoms of exposure,” including bloody noses and rashes.

In a statement, the multi-billion dollar contractor told CBS News: “We deny the assertion that KBR harmed troops and was responsible for an unsafe condition.”

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KBR says it notified the Army as soon as it identified the toxin, but some Indiana guardsmen say they only just learned of the risk. “I didn’t know I was exposed to a deadly carcinogen until five years later when I received a letter,” said Indiana National Guardsman Jody Aistrop.

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Fort Bragg soldiers possibly exposed to asbestos

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

Evan Colchiski, the father of a soldier who is currently stationed at Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, North Carolina has told the media that the Army “badly handled” the asbestos contamination in an Army barrack last week.

Crews were working on the barracks and discovered asbestos tiles.

The Devil’s Rejects movies The Maltese Falcon film Three Kings hd According to Colchiski, soldiers may have inhaled asbestos fibers that were transferred through the heating vents after asbestos-containing floor tiles were ripped up.

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Lt. Col. Clarence Counts, a public affairs officer at the base, said an unknown number of soldiers removed floor tiles last week and the tiles are now being tested to see if they contain contaminants. Counts has said that environmental officials have sealed and cleaned the contaminated barrack.

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The barrack was built during the Vietnam War, and is in the midst of renovations. Soldiers who ripped up tiles were not given masks or other safety equipment to protect them from the potentially hazardous asbestos dust in the air.

Colchiski claims to have had a sample of the floor tiles tested in a laboratory and staed that the sampled contained over 25% asbestos.