What is Asbestos Exposure?

Asbestos exposure occurs primarily when people work on construction sites or they are in factories where asbestos is used. However, the evidence is now very clear that you can get enough asbestos exposure to cause cancer from even light exposures. For instance, if you wash your husbands clothing or you hugged your father when he came home from an asbestos factory, that is enough asbestos exposure and it doesn’t take a lot. People don’t really realize that if you look at thimble full of asbestos, one asbestos company has admitted in internal documents that a thimble full of asbestos can circle the globe 40 times if you lay those fibers end-to-end. So it doesn’t take a lot of asbestos exposure to cause disease and we have to be very careful. If you think you’ve had asbestos exposure and you’re feeling poorly or you think there is something wrong with your health, you need to get to a doctor as soon as possible.