Other countries: Asbestos Cyprus, Corsica, Sicily

• McConnochie (1987): cluster of mesothelioma associated with environmental exposure from an asbestos mine and house whitewashing in Cyprus; both CHRYSOTILE and TREMOLITE fibers found in whitewash samples and lungs of animals
• Balandraux-Lucchesi et al (1990), Billon-Galland (1988), Rey et al (1993):excess of pleural plaques and mesothelioma in Northeast Corsica;TREMOLITE fibers in the soil and small amounts of CHRYSOTILE
• Paoletti et (2000): cluster of mesothelioma in Eastern Sicily in a town where stones from nearby quarries were used in the local building industry; samples from the quarries, the buildings and lung of a mesothelioma case contained TREMOLITE-ACTINOLITE asbestos

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