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Byssinosis [n 1] is an occupational lung disease caused by inhalation of cotton or jute dust in inadequately ventilated working environments and can develop over time with repeated exposure. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Byssinosis commonly occurs in textile workers who are employed in yarn and fabric manufacture industries.
Byssinosis – Byssinosis is caused by cotton dust inhalation and typically demonstrates a different pattern of lung abnormalities from most other pneumoconiosis. [1] Chalicosis – fine dust from stonecutting; Silicosiderosis (also sometimes called iron miner's lung [10]) – mixed dust containing silica and iron [11]
This is a list of Legionnaires' disease outbreaks; Legionnaire's is a potentially fatal infectious disease caused by gram negative, aerobic bacteria belonging to the genus Legionella.
When the series was released, many of the newspaper's street boxes were looted of their copies. The series led to the Georgia legislature enacting laws to allow workers with byssinosis to file workers' compensation claims for the first time. The reportage also garnered several awards including an Associated Press Newswriting Award – Public ...
Bagassosis was first reported in India by Ganguly and Pal in 1955, in a cardboard manufacturing plant near Kolkata. India has a large cane sugar industry.The sugarcane fibre which, until recently, went to waste, is now utilised in the manufacture of cardboard, paper and rayon.
Some workers suffered from Byssinosis, or brown lung, caused by prolonged exposure to cotton dust. [37] At that time boys might start to work as doffers before the age of seven. [36] However, as Hine reported, "In every case, the youngsters told me their age as 12 years, even to the little Hop-o'-My-Thumb, whom the others dubbed 'our baby doffer.'
Chemical pneumonitis is inflammation of the lung caused by aspirating or inhaling irritants. [1] It is sometimes called a "chemical pneumonia", though it is not infectious.. There are two general types of chemical pneumonitis: acute and chron
Pneumococcal infection is an infection caused by the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae. [1]S. pneumoniae is a common member of the bacterial flora colonizing the nose and throat of 5–10% of healthy adults and 20–40% of healthy children. [2]