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9/11 survivors' exposure to toxic dust and the chronic health conditions that followed offer lessons that are still too often unheeded

  • Written by Roberto Lucchini, Professor of Occupational and Environmental Health Sciences, Florida International University
imageToxic dust hung in the air around ground zero for more than three months following the 9/11 terrorist attacks.Anthony Correia/Getty Images

The 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York resulted in the loss of 2,753 people in the Twin Towers and surrounding area. After the attack, more than 100,000 responders and recovery workers...

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