World Trade Center Responders Suffering Health Ailments

Environment News Service, September, 2006

NEW YORK, New York (ENS) — --> More than 60 percent of World Trade Center responders still suffer respiratory problems from exposure to environmental contaminants released when the towers were hit by hijacked airplanes five years ago, according to the largest study to date on the health effects of 9/11.

Released Tuesday by the Mount Sinai Medical Center, the study is based upon medical examinations performed between July 2002 and April 2004 on 9,500 World Trade Center responders. The responders were a highly diverse group and included members of the building trades, law enforcement officers, firefighters, utilities and telecommunications workers, transit workers, and many others. The report found that a high proportion of those examined became sick as a result of their World...

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