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  2. Occupational disease - Wikipedia

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    Occupational lung diseases include asbestosis among asbestos miners and those who work with friable asbestos insulation, as well as black lung (coalworker's pneumoconiosis) among coal miners, silicosis among miners and quarrying and tunnel operators and byssinosis among workers in parts of the cotton textile industry.

  3. Job safety analysis - Wikipedia

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    A job safety analysis (JSA) is a procedure that helps integrate accepted safety and health principles and practices into a particular task or job operation.The goal of a JSA is to identify potential hazards of a specific role and recommend procedures to control or prevent these hazards.

  4. IARC group 3 - Wikipedia

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    IARC group 3 substances, chemical mixtures and exposure circumstances are those that can not be classified in regard to their carcinogenicity to humans by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).

  5. Work accident - Wikipedia

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    Erik Henningsen's painting A wounded worker from the National Gallery of Denmark A 19th century work accident in a mine. A work accident, workplace accident, occupational accident, or accident at work is a "discrete occurrence in the course of work" leading to physical or mental occupational injury. [1]

  6. Microangiopathy - Wikipedia

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    Microangiopathy (also known as microvascular disease, small vessel disease (SVD) or microvascular dysfunction) is a disease of the microvessels, small blood vessels in the microcirculation. [1]

  7. Fifth disease - Wikipedia

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    Fifth disease, also known as erythema infectiosum and slapped cheek syndrome, [3] is a common and contagious disease caused by infection with parvovirus B19. [4] This virus was discovered in 1975 and can cause other diseases besides fifth disease. [5]

  8. Minamata disease - Wikipedia

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    Minamata disease (Japanese: 水俣病, Hepburn: Minamata-byō) is a neurological disease caused by severe mercury poisoning.Signs and symptoms include ataxia, numbness in the hands and feet, general muscle weakness, loss of peripheral vision, and damage to hearing and speech.

  9. Eli Cohen - Wikipedia

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    Cohen was born in Alexandria, Egypt, to a family of Mizrahi Jews.His father had immigrated from Aleppo in the Ottoman Empire in 1914. Deeply committed to Judaism, Cohen had planned in his youth to become a rabbi with guidance from Moise Ventura [] (1893–1978), Alexandria's Chief Rabbi, [4] but the city's yeshiva soon closed down, [5] prompting him to pursue higher education at Cairo University.