Wife develops mesothelioma after living chemical plant as a child

Did you live near or work in a plant that exposed you to asbestos and cause mesothelioma? Our lawyers may be able to help.

In recent news about the dangers of asbestos exposure, a husband is backing the latest fight against the deadly asbestos disease mesothelioma which claimed the lives of his wife and his mother.

His wife, who was just 62, died after a two-year fight against mesothelioma, a cancer caused by exposure to asbestos.

Her husband, 64, thinks she contracted mesothelioma cancer because she grew up near a chemical plant that used many asbestos-containing products. It took more than five decades for her symptoms to show and it wasn't until 2007 that she was diagnosed with the incurable asbestos disease.

The woman, who had two daughters, was brought up near the "white heap" at the chemical plant.

It was the same plant where her husband's mother worked as a young woman. She, too, died of mesothelioma cancer in 1979, aged 72.

The chemical plant has been blamed for the deaths of a number of people living nearby.

Those working at the site and living nearby simply had no idea they were coming into contact with such a lethal substance.

Asbestos is found in many products used in buildings, including ceiling tiles, pipe insulation, boilers and sprayed coatings.

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