Rene,
I am an occupational medicine physician in Washington. I recently
supported and had accepted a worker compensation claim for a pterygium
in a farm worker. I dont think it is widely diagnosed as an occupational
disease as such. Literature on the cause of the problem suggest that the
conditions commonly found in outdoor and agricultural work are causative
and therefore in most jurisdictions, pterygium should be covered under
workman's comp. This option should be considered and when possible,
pursued by people providing care for agricultural workers with pterygia.

Rene J. Quintana wrote:
> Sheila,
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> If I may encourage you to research pterygium, the eye diseases that is
> at epidemic levels in Hispanic men. It's a serious problem that
> preliminary research finds that this contagion is non cancerious. I do
> not agree. I believe the eye disease is mutating into malignantcy.
>
> Rene Quintana
> Del Norte
> Adelante
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sheila Faye Lahousse [mailto:lahouss1@...]
> Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 4:25 PM
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> Subject: [migrant_health_research] Contacts in Southern California
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> Greetings,
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> I recently moved from the Midwest and am in need of your help. Can
> anyone
> please send me some contacts of organizations doing promotora work with
> cancer prevention/health promotion and farmworkers in the Southern
> California border region? I am doing my own research on finding key
> players
> in the area, but still wanted to see if you had any leads,
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Sheila LaHousse
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