1. World Trade Center rescuers face lung distress.
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Ault, Alicia
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AIR pollution , *RESPIRATORY diseases , *PUBLIC health research , *ENVIRONMENTAL quality , *SEPTEMBER 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 , *ENVIRONMENTAL health , *POLLUTION , *HEALTH of fire fighters , *STRUCTURAL steel workers , *MESOTHELIOMA risk factors , *LUNG diseases , *CITIES & towns & the environment , *DISEASE risk factors - Abstract
Focuses on the study released by the U.S. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, which found respiratory difficulties plague rescuers and others who worked at the World Trade Center since September 11, 2001. Connections between pollutants and adverse health effects, according to Philip Landrigan, chairman of the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine; Distress caused by highly alkaline pulverized cement particles and microscopic glass shards; Symptoms of the firefighters and ironworkers who were evaluated; Impact of pollution on residents who lived within a ten-block radius of the site; The risk of asbestos-linked mesothelioma.
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- 2004
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