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Old Wed Aug 27, 2008, 06:27 PM
John John is offline
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Becky

The 2006 AA Study as expected did not find a link with the chemical plant that produces over 1/2 million gallons of Benzene annually as a waste product. Three 9 year old girls from Longview, all on the same soccer team and going to the same school got sick last year. One with AA, one with AML, and one with ALL. The State DOH has said it was just another coincidence but because of local parent and school concerns is going to hold a public forum tomorrow. In 1999, there was another cluster study conducted because of 16 perinatal and prenatal deaths between January and March 1999. The DOH was unable to link these deaths to any cause then and explained that it was just a random spike. Eventually, the coincidences will no longer be coincidences and the DOH will do their job and find the cause of the illnesses and deaths in our area.
Benzene has been linked to AA and AML and I believe it is just a matter of time before it is linked to several other forms of bone marrow disorders. Linking it to a specific person's illness is difficult because an acute exposure to Benzene becomes very difficult to prove because Benzene excretes rapidly from the body is almost undetectable in a couple of days. Some research is being done to identify markers in the body that indicate Benzene exposure as the probable cause of an illness but that doesn't mean it could be proven in court yet. Hopefully, someday we will know for sure the cause of the 80% of the AA cases now classified as idiopathic.
Thanks for your e-mail. My son Timothy is slowly recovering from AA without any type of immune suppresssion therapy or bone marrow transplant.
John
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