Our POISONS Are Perfectly "Safe"-----Yeah, Right

Orkin Pest Control said it was "perfectly safe" to stay in the home while they sprayed Dursban

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Subject:   Our POISONS Are Perfectly "Safe"-----Yeah, Right
Date:        Sat, 10 Jun 2000 06:46:29 -0400
From:        Stephen Tvedten <steve@getipm.com>
Organization:     Get Set Inc. (www.getipm.com)

To:     Lyndon Hawkins <hawkins@empm.cdpr.ca.gov>
          Senior Research Scientist
          State of California, Department of Pesticide Regulation - Integrated Pest Management

Dear Lyndon,  I thought you might like to read something I just received. Laurie Enger sent me the latest TV coverage of their Dursban poisoning, one of 4 in the last week in Boise, Idaho.   Click here: http://www.fox12news.com/ or read below:

Saturday, June 10
Dursban Takes It's Toll On Boise Family
Updated: 06/08/2000 at 4:35 PM
By Teo Torres

Boise, ID--“I asked him should we get out of the house, should I take my pets and leave. He said no, it’s perfectly safe.” Five years ago Bill Enger hired a local exterminator to spray his north Boise home to get rid of an insect problem. “Apparently I found out later that he was drilling holes in the walls and pumping it into the wall voids,” says Enger. The chemical was Dursban. A poison Bill says slowly began making he and his wife sick. “She’d sit up all night in bed coughing. I’d lost weight from 220 down to about 150 pounds,” says Enger. 

This healthy active man was now suffering from ailments with names like Peripheral Moropraphy and Toxic Enselopothy. He would never be the same. “I don’t have any feelings at all. It’s like they’ve taken my soul out,” says Enger. Bill doesn’t live in his home any longer. During a lawsuit against the exterminator he was forced to declare bankruptcy, and it was repossessed. “It’s over. I’ve lost it and lost everything,” adds Enger.

To date it’s never been proven in court that Dursban caused his illnesses. But today’s EPA announcement is the proof and the victory he’s been waiting for. “It will save a lot of other people their lives and it won’t happen to others like it did to us,” adds Enger.

On Monday Bill will go to California for laser spinal surgery to relive some of his pain. It’s also interesting to point out that Bill is also suffering from Parkinson’s Disease. It’s a condition that is traditionally hereditary. There is no history of it in his family.

Well, Lyndon, we may never know in this life how many innocent people suffered because they were exposed to your "perfectly safe registered" POISONS; but, there is One who has a record of every tear and every harm. One day we all will have to answer to that One - what will you say then Lyndon?  

Respectfully,  Stephen L. Tvedten

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