More deaths may be linked to Ground Zero cleanup
From the New York Daily News via Kentucky.com
Excerpt: ...But the New York Daily News has learned that an additional 22 men, mostly in their 30s and 40s, have died from causes their families say were accelerated by the toxic mix of chemicals that lodged in their bodies as they searched for survivors or participated in the cleanup after the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
Among them are private employees, a sanitation worker, a correction officer, a utility worker, transit workers, firefighters and police officers. They died from black lung and cancers of the esophagus and pancreas.
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