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Article: Hazard in hiding; Carbon monoxide exposure can damage brain, heart tissues long before it reaches deadly levels.(VARIETY)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- December 11, 1996
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Carbon monoxide doesn't just kill. It also injures and maims.
One can have an encounter with carbon monoxide (CO) and live to tell about it, but be forever changed.
Wayne McCloskey, 56, of Danbury, Wis., had to sell his business and retire when CO exposure from an incorrectly installed water heater at home caused his memory to falter.
"I couldn't remember who I talked to," he said. "It was becoming so embarrassing. They would ask me if I'd shipped the order and I couldn't remember. I'd say yes, but I couldn't remember shipping the order."
Once the business was gone, he and his wife sold the house they could no longer afford and moved ...