New York Times article on WTC dust health risks

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' Danger In the Smoke and Dust I CLEANUP CREWS i GROUND ZERO wire and economic backgrounds. Immigrant laborers hired to clean i Dr. Walfredo Lyon and his Dr. Philip Landrigan and his up businesses and apartments i Downstate M^ical Center team colleagues at Mount Sinai suffered severe respiratory i in Brooklyn found RADS in a School of Medicine examined symptoms and in some cases . i study of 82 New York City 187 women and their illnesses involving organ systems i police officers who worked newborns, cornparing them besides the lungs. Dr. Steven ; around Ground Zero during the wfth 3,000 mother/baby Markowitz and colleagues from i fail of 2001. “Most are still sick,” combinations from uptown Queens College tested 415 ; he said. “And that’s what they Manhattan. They found the cleanup workers, “nearly all of i have-RADS.” birth weight for the Ground whom," Markowitz said, suffered Zero babies was an ounce a long-lasting syndrome of upper RRERGHTER COUGH or more below normal. ainways irritation, congestion and A study conducted by several chest pain. medical schools and the city ASTHMA INCREASE fire department found 332 Anecdotally, physicians in Omra WORKERS firefighters at Ground Zero Brooklyn and lower Z i Dr. Steven Levin at the Mount suffered respiratory problems, Manhattan report a sharp Sinai Hospital is leading a team including RADS. The uptick in adult-onset asthma studying 6,100 workers in offices researchers dubbed the ailment diagnoses since Sept. 11. and businesses below Canal World Trade Center Cough. Still pending are the results Street on Sept. 11,2001. Nearly Most of the firefighters are ofajoint NYU/New York all have symptoms of respiratory illnesses similar to asthma; periodic gasping for air, a choking sensation and unusual sensitivity Jaairbomejrritantsrtsvirris on permanent disability. SMALLER BABIES Women who were pregnant on “ Sept. 11 and lived or worked State Department of Health survey of 10,000 lower Manhattan residents, conducted by Dr. Joan Relbman of NYU. Results L convinced they have a type of '“occupational asthma” called Reactive Airways Disease Syndrome. around Ground Zero were twice as likely to deliver a baby smaller than normal among New Yorkers of similar racial have been tabulated, but - they are not ready for release, Relbman said. I Justin Gilbert

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