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9/11 de la salud todavía del peaje desconocido
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Era un desastre ese desafío de toda la imaginación.
Y ahora, más de cinco años después de dos jetliners hundieron en New York City gemelo torres en el sept. 11, 2001, allí es muchos los expertos no saben y pueden nunca saber sobre las consecuencias de la salud de ese día unforgettable.
“La edición verdadera es la incertidumbre de lo que no sabemos,” dijo a Dr. Len Horovitz, especialista pulmonar en el hospital de la colina de Lenox en New York City. “And when you look at what we do know, the question arises as to whether we’re looking at tip of the iceberg or the iceberg itself.”
The disaster has been associated with a prolonged hacking known as “World Trade Center Cough” and with sarcoidosis, a disease that causes inflammation and scarring in the lungs.
Just this week, the New York City Chief Medical Examiner added the name of Felicia Dunn-Jones to the list of attack victims. Dunn-Jones, a 42-year-old attorney at the time of the attacks, died of sarcoidosis five months after the attacks. This marked the first time the city had officially linked a 9/11 death to the toxic plume.
According to a perspective piece in the May 31 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, some responders have already received compensation and litigation is ongoing for thousands of people who allegedly fell ill after inhaling World Trade Center dust.
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