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Malignant mesothelioma deaths still a reality due to ongoing use of asbestos.

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April 23, 2009 - The CDC has reported that deaths from malignant mesothelioma are expected to peak by 2010 and then begin to decline.

According to Ki Moon Bang, Ph.D., of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), and colleagues in the April 24 issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report:

  • The number of malignant mesothelioma deaths increased from 2,482 in 1999 to 2,704 in 2005
  • Although the health threat posed by asbestos has decreased, it has not disappeared: Asbestos continues to be imported legally for use in certain construction and transportation products.
  • Carbon nanotubes used increasingly in manufacturing may share the same carcinogenic potential attributed to asbestos in mesothelioma.
  • An estimated 1.3 million construction and general industry workers potentially are being exposed to asbestos.
  • 18,068 people died of malignant mesothelioma from 1999 to 2005. Men accounted for 80.8% of the deaths and whites for 95.1%.
  • Mesothelioma mortality risk increased with age: 311 deaths involved people younger than 45; there were 8,858 deaths for people 75 and older.
  • 26 states had mesothelioma death rates that exceeded the national average, including six states that had death rates >20 per 1 million or greater: Maine (27.5), Wyoming (22.2), West Virginia (21.0), Pennsylvania (20.8), New Jersey (20.2), and Washington (20.1).

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