Friday, November 11, 2011

November 11, 2011

“An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.”
Orlando A. Battista (1917-1995)

VICTIMS OF CO POISONING SPEAK OUT
Carbon Monoxide – the Silent Killer
Patch.com By Billie Bakhshi
It felt like the flu, but I sent my husband off on his retreat to Saint Joseph in the Hills anyway. With a new job and new baby on the way, it seemed like it might be the last chance he'd have to spend time in prayer and meditation ...

Sixth carbon monoxide week - 21 November
H&V News
Lynn Griffths founded the charity in July 2005 after she was poisoned by carbon monoxide (CO) for over a decade and her two children were poisoned in the womb, even though they were born eight years apart. One 24th November, one month before Christmas ...

COSA NOTE: This article states carbon monoxide concentrations in a building were discovered in % and not in parts per million (PPM), The %’s given as what was found and what was left was over 100,000 PPM. We believe this is incorrectly reported. Note however, that a man was poisoned none the less.
Office evacuated Carbon monoxide leak hospitalizes man
Columbia Daily Herald By CHRISTINE SEIBER
A man was transported to Maury Regional Medical Center in Columbia to be treated for carbon monoxide poisoning after high levels of the odorless gas were detected where he worked, fire department officials said. ...