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Amosite and crocidolite are considered the most hazardous asbestos fiber types; [5] however, chrysotile asbestos has also produced tumors in animals and is a recognized cause of asbestosis and malignant mesothelioma in humans, [6] and mesothelioma has been observed in people who were occupationally exposed to chrysotile, family members of the ...
Asbestosis affected about 157,000 people and resulted in 3,600 deaths in 2015. [8] [7] Asbestos use has been banned in a number of countries in an effort to prevent disease. [1] Statistics from the UK's Health and Safety Executive showed that in 2019, there were 490 asbestosis deaths. [10]
Asbestos-related diseases are disorders of the lung and pleura caused by the inhalation of asbestos fibres. Asbestos-related diseases include non-malignant disorders such as asbestosis (pulmonary fibrosis due to asbestos), diffuse pleural thickening, pleural plaques, pleural effusion, rounded atelectasis and malignancies such as lung cancer and malignant mesothelioma.
Parks and schools were closed Thursday in a Southern California city after officials found asbestos in the charred debris of an historic World War II-era blimp hangar. The city of Tustin closed at ...
A California middle school teacher has died after she was bitten by a bat inside her classroom. Leah Seneng, 60, was wounded after she unexpectedly found the animal in her classroom at Bryant ...
Asbestos (/ æ s ˈ b ɛ s t ə s, æ z-,-t ɒ s / ass-BES-təs, az-, -toss) [1] is a group of naturally occurring, toxic, carcinogenic and fibrous silicate minerals.There are six types, all of which are composed of long and thin fibrous crystals, each fibre (particulate with length substantially greater than width) [2] being composed of many microscopic "fibrils" that can be released into ...
Blue asbestos is possibly 100 times more hazardous than white asbestos, as the fibres are much smaller (around 2.5 to 10 micrometres). [2] The inhalation of asbestos results in illness and in most cases death, due to asbestosis, mesothelioma (of which asbestos is the only known cause) and other lung diseases. [1]
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