World Trade Center Responders Plagued With Asthma; 9/11 Responders Twice As Likely To Have Asthma
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 - 15:21
in Health & Medicine
First responders who were exposed to caustic dust and toxic pollutants following the 2001 World Trade Center terrorist attacks suffer from asthma at more than twice the rate of the general US population, according to new data.
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