In and around Jacksonville, exposure stories often include one or more of these real-world patterns:
- Residential lawn and garden treatment: applying weed killers around driveways, fences, and landscaped beds, sometimes repeatedly over multiple seasons.
- Landscaping and property maintenance work: groundskeeping at schools, commercial properties, churches, HOAs, or local businesses.
- Secondhand exposure at home: residue carried on work clothes, boots, tools, or vehicles used for routine treatments.
- Near-spray contact: mowing or maintaining areas shortly after herbicides are applied along property lines or near roadways.
When a serious illness is diagnosed, it’s common for families to wonder whether the timing makes sense and whether symptoms could have developed from exposures that happened years earlier.


