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Science 15 September 2006:
Vol. 313. no. 5793, p. 1555
DOI: 10.1126/science.313.5793.1555c
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Public health researchers in New York will begin a long-term surveillance program next month of workers exposed to dust during rescue and recovery efforts after the 2001 World Trade Center attacks. Some 40,000 workers combed through the rubble, breathing dust laced with toxics such as dioxin or asbestos. According to a paper published in Environmental Health Perspectives last week, 61% of 9442 workers surveyed have developed acute respiratory problems such as labored breathing.

The new effort will receive $26 million in federal funds until 2009 and track some 30,000 workers for long-term lung problems as well as cancers. Society owes answers to the "volunteers who leapt into the fray," says co-leader Philip Landrigan of Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, one of five clinical centers on the effort.




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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)