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1 They took the case to Mr. Feinberg ineni from the victim compensation ONUNC: VIDEO o o and the victim compensation fund, fund, and believes that hks wife was a A discussion o/thc retotfonship o which gave |7 billion to toe families 9/11 'vtetlm as surely as if she had c between toxic dust at ground zero 3 of those killed or tojwed wi 9/11. . died in the towers. He sent Mr. Fein- and lUnesses: CD O Mr. Feinberg toitlally expressed berg’s decision to the city’s chief nytlmes.com/nyreglon doubts about the claim and demand- medical examiner, Dr. Charles S. pl to see definitive medical evidence Hirsch, and asked that his wife be linking Mrs. Dunn-Jones’s sarcoid- put on the official list so that her government’s 9/11 health coordina­ tais-to.toe tost v name tould'be read on Sept. 11. Dr, tor, recently circulated a draft set of Dk Prezant, who declined to be in- Hirsch refused, a spokeswoman said, autopsy protocols that directs pa- terviewed tor tote article, was one of because the available evidence did thologists to use a standard of proof two experts who testified at a hear- not prove the connection “with a rea- that establishes both biological plau­ mg conducted by Mr. Feinberg. In sonabie degree of medical certate- sibility and unequivocal evidence of M first four years after 9/11, he ty”— the hlglwsst medical standard a causal connection to the dust. But found 20 cases of sarcoidosis in the generally used to legal cases. doctors and elected officials have Kre Department^ a rate of 80 per ' Mr. Feinberg’s decision had been said those standards are so restric­ 100,000 in the first year (With' treat- based on a different standard: a pre- tive that almost no death could be ment, all are now stable), compared poridei aiice of medical evidence. linked to the dust for years to come. With a national rate of fewer than, fl That was proof enough for the A spokesman tor Dr. Howard said Iter lfW,O<W, according to the Ameri­ Staten Island Memorial, Conunts- the guidelines were being refined. can Thoracic Society. siMi, which has engraved Mrs. Dunn- In another effort, the Mount Staal The other expert was Dr. Alan M. Jones's name on the bone-white me­ Medical Center, which has screened Mrs. Dunn-Jones, whose death Reto, a clinical professor of medicme morial on the Island’s north shore. was deemed a result of 9/11 dust. thousands of ground zero workers, 4 file New York University School of Representative Carolyn B. Ma­ has begun a long-term study of the .^edlcitte. He, too, was sk^tical/M loney, who has ftxight to get medical Incidence of diseases to identify any stunned. Then, when he received the first, bathe said he dhahgei'ljb mtod care for 8/11 vtetims, said the eon- rates that exceed national averages. official death certificate months lat­ after reviewing Mrs. Dunn-Jones’s tradictory conclusions about Mrs. “Right now we’re In the process of er, he was shocked to see an unfamil­ medical record, including the autop­ Dunn-Jones’s death underscored the confirming every case of interstitial iar word — sarcoidosis. sy report. “Tin comfortable saying importance of deciding who has the lung disease, every cancer, every ‘‘Even though I w'as in the medical her death was caused by exposure to final say on causal links. “They sarcoidosis that has been reported to field, I had never heard of it,” he said, the dust,” Dr. Fete said to an la- should be medical decisions, not po­ us by responders to their visits,” said After reading several medical re- temew. ' ' - litical' ones,” she said, suggesting Dr. Jeanne M. Stellman, director of ports on sarcoidosis •— including one In March 2004, Mr. Feinberg that city officials may have a conflict the public health program at Colum­ by Dr. David J. Prezant, deputy chief agreed, making Mrs. Dunn-Jones’s . of Interest in making such determi- bia University, is leading the data medical officer of the New York Fire ith the only dust-related fatality nations since the city Is a defendant collection project. Department —- Jones and his ognized by the fund. Only one oth- in the ground zero workers' lawsuits. “We are actively trying to deter- lawyer, Richard R. Bennett, won- er death has 'been formally linked to She has introduced a Wil to reopen mine whether Detective Zadroga dered if Mrs. Dunn-Jones's mysteri- fh^ dust: to April, a New Jersey cor- the Meral compensation fund to and Mrs. Dunn-Jones are atone,” she ous death could be linked to 9/11 dust onto determined that James Zadro- people whose Illnesses became said. “And we are trying to find a because sarcoidosis, which produces ga; 34, a New York City p<iice de- known after the original eligibility way to do this that is scientifically iiHt r.jscopic lumps called granulo- teotive. Sad died of a disease similar perWwdWtaaow. correct while also being responsive mas, on vital organb. Is often as»cl- to sarcoidosis, also causrf^ his ex­ IB effort to collect definitive to die needs and fears of the commu­ ated with exposure jto environmental posure to ground zero dust. (fata. Dr. John Howard, the faierM nities involved.”