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Topic started on 15-5-2008 @ 04:45 PM by budski

360 post-9/11 workers have died, including 80 of cancer, says state


www.nydailynews.com
More than 360 workers who dealt with the aftermath of the World Trade Center disaster have died, state health officials said Wednesday.

Officials have determined the cause of death of 154 of the responders and volunteers who toiled at Ground Zero, the blocks nearby and at the Fresh Kills landfill, where debris from the site was taken.

Of those, 80 died of cancer.

"It's the tip of the iceberg," said David Worby, who is representing 10,000 workers - 600 with cancer - who say they got sick after working on rescue and recovery efforts.

"These statistics bear out how toxic that site was," Worby said.

Most of the deadly tumors were in the lungs and digestive system, according to the tally from the state's World Trade Center Responder Fatality Investigation Program.

Other deaths were traced to blood cancers and heart and circulatory diseases. Five ex-workers committed suicide, said Kitty Gelberg, who is tracking the deaths for the program.
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reply posted on 15-5-2008 @ 04:53 PM by budski
reply to post by MemoryShock



Thanks MS - it rang some alarm bells in my head, but I don't know enough about these kinds of diseases to make a judgement.

I posted it in the hope that one of our medically minded members might be able to shed some light on it.

It all seems rather strange, to have that high a mortality rate in so short a space of time, and raises the question of insurance again for sick building syndrome - and that'sbefore expolsives are considered.


reply posted on 15-5-2008 @ 06:38 PM by budski
reply to post by NovusOrdoMundi



Indeed,
those brave people deserve so much better than this.

I have nothing but respect for them - I certainly wouldn't have wanted to do what they did, I'm not even sure I could.

And yet their plight is being ignored - is this the reward that bravery and self-sacrifice can expect?


reply posted on 15-5-2008 @ 07:26 PM by theendisnear69
reply to post by NovusOrdoMundi



I completely agree. It angers me to no end that America's heroes get treated like this and are dying of things that with good healthcare could have been prevented or at least treated. They put others lives before their own that day, and our society just turns a blind eye to this. The media is definitley guilty of letting this go unknown to the public.

O well watching american idol helps me live my life without having to think about these things.


reply posted on 15-5-2008 @ 10:44 PM by NovusOrdoMundi
reply to post by budski



I guess thats people's idea of "freedom"; you get to block out the things that matter and only pay attention to the things that make you normal by society's standards.

Really its just about being normal and being able to create this fantasy world inside your head and live beyond your means.

Its funny that these people who don't care that our first responders are dying would be the first weak asses wanting their help if they were in trouble.


reply posted on 16-5-2008 @ 09:10 AM by vor78
reply to post by hinky



Lets not forget that Bush and Giuliani were both at the site only a few days after it happened, breathing that same air.

I'm not saying that the air quality was safe, nor am I saying that these guys don't have a legitimate grievance. They probably do. Guys, the truth is that they probably didn't have a clue what was in those buildings. They were constructed 30 years before it happened.

It was a mistake, possibly a deadly one, and perhaps the gov't was negligent in the case, but that's all it seems to have been.
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