At last, we see a significant coverage in the media surrounding the depth exposure to asbestos and the horrible diseases it causes, such as mesothelioma.
This is all courtesy of a collaboration between the BBC International News Service and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. "Dangers in the Dust" is being deployed this week in the international services of the BBC, and by more than 50 partners ICIJ publications worldwide, including the publishing company McClatchy, which owns more than 30 daily in the US the series examines the dangers of asbestos internationally and also includes a story about victims of "take home" asbestos exposure called, "asbestos still killing families, decades later."
When most people think of mesothelioma - if they have never even heard of mesothelioma - they think a disease of retired workers. They do not think of people like our 39-year-old customer Julie Gundlach. Since being diagnosed with mesothelioma, it has been a tireless advocate for mesothelioma and asbestos-related diseases.
When I was contacted by a journalist with the newspaper of the McClatchy Illinois, Belleville News-Democrat, write an investigative article about the dangers of asbestos and the "third wave" asbestos victims, Julie immediately came to mind.
Julie is a young mother living with peritoneal mesothelioma. She lives in St. Louis with her husband, and she was exposed to asbestos when his father brought home on his clothes after working as an industrial electrician
Done :. People like Julie who are not working around asbestos can be exposed to asbestos by others that do.
It is called "home" exhibition. Here's how it works: Asbestos dust gets on the clothes and skin of a worker. When they leave home to go from the dust, forcing them to expose their spouses, children and other members of the immediate family. In some cases, children have developed mesothelioma or other asbestos related diseases later in life because they embraced their parents. In the case of Julie, his playroom for children doubled laundry room of his family, where the asbestos-covered clothes his father were washed.
Helping people like Julie as they fight for that "one-in-a-million survivors," as she says in the article, is gratifying. His story illustrates the important role of legal process plays in ensuring the patients with mesothelioma cancer receive the funding they deserve to get the best treatment available.
As the article indicates BND accurately, she had three surgeries and made more than 25 trips to New York for treatment. "If it were not legal, I've never been able to receive the medical treatment I received," Gundlach said in Article. "I'm still not able to work. Mesothelioma kills innocent people, asbestos kills innocent people, it is not prohibited, and that history, that is the question. "
" Take Home "Exposure to asbestos in the courtroom
laws affecting victims of asbestos exposure are not relics of past generations. they continue to evolve in real time. cases involving "home" asbestos exposure can be particularly combative because the company's defense attorneys argue "bring home" exhibition is not the problem of their customer because family members are not employees.
The Court of Appeal ruled that companies are required to take measures to prevent the deadly dust from reaching the house of the workers. This is important because some courts have gone the other way and governed companies are not obliged to workers' families; even if the risk of disease in the house was completely predictable.
For families like Julie Gundlach of this is very important. While some companies are able to change the laws, members of sick family have no legal recourse. Our goal is to continue to fight for the victims and to ensure that they have access to the courts.
