Women factory workers at risk: Seamstress dies of mesothelioma after inhaling asbestos fibers

Asbestos is still killing 30 men and women in Norwich, England each year but the figure is set to rise by 2012, experts warn, according to the Norwich Evening News on May 7, 2008.

People still die of asbestos related diseases such as mesothelioma - a cancer of the lining of the lung caused by exposure to asbestos, the report said.

Ex-asbestos sprayers, boiler laggers, carpenters and central heating engineers are all prime candidates for being affected by asbestos illnesses.

Women, too, are at risk for asbestos disease.

The News confirmed that a local area woman recently lost her 56-year-old daughter to mesothelioma. The 83-year-old's only child died after inhaling asbestos dust when working as a seamstress for a clothing factory.

There, she worked on firemen's jackets, which were lined with asbestos.

Sadly, this situation, where exposure to asbestos was easily preventable, is all too familiar to the mesothelioma attorneys in the Weitz & Luxenberg P.C. Asbestos Litigation unit here in the United States.

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