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9/11 WTC Victims Continue to Fight Asthma, COPD, RADS, Chronic Bronchitis says Study

The prominent New England Journal of Medicine has found that many of the rescue workers and responders to the World Trade Center attacks continued to suffer breathing difficulties that did not improve in the years since being exposed to the toxic dust and debris.   The effects go beyond what was first dubbed "World Trade Center Cough" , although that symptom has lingered in some emergency workers, says study coauthor Thomas Aldrich,MD, a pulmonologist at Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in New York City. 9/11 WTC workers who inhaled the thick dust at Ground Zero and nearby... More
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