CDC launches environmental health site

There was a plastics company that was upwind of my parents home, and I remember my mother talking about this place, Poly-Rez (no longer in business) becasue of the smells associated with them. When the EPA banned them from "venting", they started "venting" at night. That's the summer I woke up a couple times a week so sick to my stomach from the smell I didn't always make it to the bathroom. I was around 10 years old. After they were shut down, I never got the sickies at night again, but I worry about whatthe heck it was that was "vented'.

Also there was a neighbor who burned railroad ties in his fireplace. My mother used to complain about the smell (off her bedroom). She was a chemist, so she knew exactly how scary the situation was. She also died from lung cancer a few years after the neighbor started doing this.

I developed Asthma, Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and Osteoarthritis during Christmas of 1998. I live in Indiana. My parents live in Florida, THEY have developed Asthma also. There is no family history of Asthma. Incidences of Asthma have sky rocketed. Iinstead of making corporations clean up the air, the Government allows corporations to, instead, make money selling meds for Asthma. They make us sick and then make money off of our sickness.
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I grew up next door to an oil refinery. Every day at 5p.m. the refinery would pump out a smoke that smelled like sulfur. The odor stayed in the air for hours. I've always wondered what effect that may have had on my and others' health. I'll definately check out the tracking on the CDC site.

It is easy to judge things by the smells they produce however we should take precautions so as not to become the "miasamists" of old. In 19th century london the cholera plagues were thought to be due to the "miasma" or bad smell that hung in the air of london. In order to counteract this public health care policies were enacted which did not only did not solve the problem of cholera, which is actually transmitted via contaminated water, but rather they exacerbated the problem with their policies. A tool like this new environmental tool may be excellent at providing information but we must not lose sight of the bigger picture and make the mistakes of the past.

I am writing concerning our health. The county and White Oak Plantation in Nassau County Florida put coalfire ash on the road . We are dying from this ash dust it's unbeardable down I'm down with all kinds of stuff. Have no insurance but have tried to report this for over 3 years. My grandson plays out he has to go to the doctor. 3 people next door are now on the inhalers never was sick in their lives so can you help me with this by who do I get help from.

That was very well written.

YOU ARE A GREAT WRITER!!!