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Asbestos Public-Health Crisis Likely to Worsen, Study Warns

Orlando Sentinel, Staff
Published March 5, 2004

WASHINGTON -- Ten thousand Americans die each year from asbestos-related diseases, and the number appears to be increasing in a growing public-health crisis, a report by an environmental research group said Thursday. The analysis by the Washington-based Environmental Working Group projects that more than 100,000 people in the United States will die of four asbestos-related diseases -- mesothelioma, asbestosis, lung cancer and gastrointestinal cancer -- in the next 10 years.

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