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Asbestos exposure left installer, James Anderson, dead in Mexico.
From 1951 to 1975, James worked in a chemical and oil refinery plants near the gulf coast of Mexico where he installed and maintained insulation used to cover large areas of high heat in these plants. Sadly, that insulation consisted of asbestos. James had no idea then that the asbestos fibers he breathed in daily would in fact one day be the cause of the deadly mesothelioma cancer.
He also didn’t have a clue that the white powdery substance that he brought home with his clothes would jeopardize his family too. Everyday, he used to come home and hug his daughter. Then he would strip off the clothes that he had been wearing while working and put it in the laundry. At the age of 54, James was diagnosed with mesothelioma and died a short time later. The family was shattered and heart broken with sadness for the sudden loss of James.
Tragically, his daughter had also inadvertently contracted mesothelioma due to possible contamination of asbestos fibers through her father. Though Lucia didn’t encounter any sudden problems while raising a family of four – including one daughter and two sons, when she reached her forties she started to notice some unusual changes to her body and lifestyle. Her breathing became awkward with chest pains and abnormal dry cough and in the worst case scenario experienced haemoptysis or cough of blood.
In October 2000, the doctors gave her a diagnosis of tuberculosis and then pneumonia. To her utmost surprise, she had never smoked a cigarette, drank excessive alcohol or had any indications of a prior disease(s) that had caused this life threatening cancer. She went through a surgery where her phrenic nerve was removed.
Three months later, she again started vomiting blood and was rushed to the hospital where she was diagnosed with Pleural mesothelioma. Upon consultation with the doctors, she came to know that she had contracted the same disease as her father and caused due to asbestos exposure. Filled with despair and despondency, Lucia died six months later leaving her three grief-stricken children motherless.
Unfortunately, this has been the case with generations of workers who are inflicted and will continue to be affected by mesothelioma while working in asbestos enriched environments.
As a result, many will contract this disease may endanger their family members, without even working there. Despite working against environmental laws, companies openly employ asbestos materials that threaten the lives of people working there.
Thus, the need to establish anti-asbestos policies in the working environments is needed with full implementation enforcements and support by the governments and environmental agencies to stop and control the heinous nuisance of mesothelioma.
Note: Names have been changed to retain the anonymity of the entities.
