Laura
09-18-2007, 12:09 PM
...and we have to see this in a paper from Canada?
http://communities.canada.com/nationalpost/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2007/09/12/marni-soupcoff-9-11-death-toll-may-rise.aspx
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Marni Soupcoff: 9/11 death toll may rise
WWW.NYC.GOV/9-11HEALTHINFO
If you're curious about the lingering ill-effects of the World Trade Center attacks (which continue to impact tens of thousands of people), check out this site. Launched by New York City's Health Department yesterday, on the sixth anniversary of 9/11, it provides information for and about people who continue to suffer from health problems as a result of the Twin Towers' collapse.
According to the research, much of the lasting health damage was done by the intense dust cloud created by the towers' debris. Many passersby, local building occupants and rescue workers who got caught in or near the cloud developed respiratory problems, some of them very serious.
One of the site's sadder observations is that "hundreds of firefighters developed severe respiratory illness and became disabled and could no longer work as firefighters." Like all disasters, the attacks also wreaked psychological havoc on those who experienced them, creating cases of serious depression, general anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder.
The most dramatic part of the site is its list of "what we don't know" about 9/11's health effects, including: - How many people still have respiratory symptoms today and how best to treat them; and - Whether cancers will develop as a result of dust exposure.
The answers --probably several decades away --may eventually add to the 9/11 terrorists' death toll.
http://communities.canada.com/nationalpost/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2007/09/12/marni-soupcoff-9-11-death-toll-may-rise.aspx
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Marni Soupcoff: 9/11 death toll may rise
WWW.NYC.GOV/9-11HEALTHINFO
If you're curious about the lingering ill-effects of the World Trade Center attacks (which continue to impact tens of thousands of people), check out this site. Launched by New York City's Health Department yesterday, on the sixth anniversary of 9/11, it provides information for and about people who continue to suffer from health problems as a result of the Twin Towers' collapse.
According to the research, much of the lasting health damage was done by the intense dust cloud created by the towers' debris. Many passersby, local building occupants and rescue workers who got caught in or near the cloud developed respiratory problems, some of them very serious.
One of the site's sadder observations is that "hundreds of firefighters developed severe respiratory illness and became disabled and could no longer work as firefighters." Like all disasters, the attacks also wreaked psychological havoc on those who experienced them, creating cases of serious depression, general anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder.
The most dramatic part of the site is its list of "what we don't know" about 9/11's health effects, including: - How many people still have respiratory symptoms today and how best to treat them; and - Whether cancers will develop as a result of dust exposure.
The answers --probably several decades away --may eventually add to the 9/11 terrorists' death toll.