Two city officials from Marion, South Carolina have been indicted for allowing their employees to work inside buildings filled with toxic asbestos and also for allowing the release of asbestos-containing fibers from hazardous waste into the atmosphere. The men face both fines and jail time if convicted.
When one reads about an individual who is suffering from mesothelioma, most often it is the pleural form of the disease that afflicts that particular person.
A warehouse fire in a crowded area of St. Louis has put residents on edge, concerned about what’s left behind in the debris. However, the EPA tells them that there’s nothing to worry about after tests of debris in neighborhoods around the site turned up clean.
The feds spent a whopping $1.8 million to clean up asbestos at the old Pillsbury site in Springfield, Illinois, but there’s still plenty of the toxic asbestos material lurking about in hard to clean places, officials say.
A retired Oxford University (England) professor who was well known in his field has died at age 93 of mesothelioma, a disease that an inquest panel believes he may have developed when he served as “Keeper of the Books” at the university’s expansive library.
In an unusual case of asbestos-caused cancer, it has been reported that a 23-year-old woman in the United Kingdom has likely developed mesothelioma due to her ingesting asbestos when she was a very small child.
For decades, asbestos-caused cancer was considered a man’s disease. Indeed, the average mesothelioma sufferer was – and still is – male, usually with a median age of around 65. That’s because most of those affected by the disease had labored in jobs that were typically for men, including at steel mills, refineries, power plants, and other places where tasks demanded lots of strength and tenacity.
Any time a natural disaster happens, we gasp at the aftermath. No one wants to see downed trees, crumbling buildings, battered cars, and debris scattered through areas that were once neighborhoods full of contented residents. The end result is never a pretty site, and not only is it ugly to look at but it’s also dangerous to peruse.
Researchers at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center have determined that people who ride off-road vehicles (ORVs) in certain parts of the country may be regularly exposed to asbestos during their backroad adventures.