Laundry Exposes Woman to Asbestos

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A British woman has died from second hand exposure to asbestos, causing a new furor for compensation laws and restrictions on the hazardous material. The woman was exposed to asbestos while doing her husband’s laundry.

After years of washing her husband’s asbestos-laden laundry, a woman in York has died from the prolonged exposure to the deadly material. She was suffering from mesothelioma, a form of lung cancer directly linked to asbestos exposure. After shaking the dust from her husband’s carpenter clothes for more than 20 years, the woman contracted the lung cancer from breathing in the fibers. In 2002 she went to her GP due to shortness of breath, and was diagnosed with the disease in early 2003.

After radiation and chemotherapy, her condition began to degenerate in late 2005; she passed away January of this year while waiting for financial assistance that was denied to her since she was a third party in the exposure. Reforms for an asbestos compensation Bill are coming under discussion this week in England, and this case was brought before the court to enumerate the need for speedy payouts for mesothelioma victims and their families.

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