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9/11 de santé de péage toujours inconnu
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C'était un désastre ce défier toute l'imagination.
Et maintenant, plus de cinq ans après deux avions de ligne à réaction ont plongé dans New York City jumeau des tours sur septembre. 11, 2001, là est beaucoup des experts ne savent pas et peuvent ne jamais savoir les conséquences de santé de ce jour inoubliable.
« La vraie question est l'incertitude de ce que nous ne savons pas, » a dit le Dr. Len Horovitz, un spécialiste pulmonaire à l'hôpital de colline de Lenox à 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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