Dust from the World Trade Center collapse
Caused lung illness in rescue workers
According to a May, 2007, report in The New York Times, dust from the World Trade Center collapse caused lung illnesses in city rescue workers.
Doctors from the New York City Fire Department and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine found that 13 firefighters and emergency medical service workers developed sarcoidosis, a debilitating illness in which the lungs and other organs develop inflammation that produces lumps of cells, called granulomas. The illness can be controlled with drugs, but in some cases it gets progressively worse and can be fatal.
Doctors found 26 cases of sarcoidosis in the five years after 9/11, an amount surpassing the combined total for the previous 15 years. This study, released in the medical journal Chest, is considered to have a high degree of reliability because yearly checkups by department doctors make it possible to compare a firefighter’s condition before and after 9/11.
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