Posted on 06/05/2010 9:20:35 PM PDT by Newtoidaho
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Researchers have embarked on an ambitious study to track the health of thousands of high school graduates over a half century in a Montana town where a toxic mine has killed hundreds of people and made it the deadliest Superfund site in the nation.
People who attended Libby High between 1950 and 1999 and then moved away are being asked to submit to tests to help determine the extent of contamination caused by asbestos mining and processing in the northwestern Montana town. Researchers will track down many of the 13,000-plus graduates with the help of the school district and alumni groups, and then ask them to undergo a battery of X-rays, CT scans and pulmonary function tests.
Dr. Stephen M. Levin of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York said the study is part of a larger range of work trying to figure out why asbestos-related disease coming out of Libby appears to be particularly fast-moving and virulent.
"This progresses much more rapidly than your grandfather's asbestos-related disease," Levin said.
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Um, how does chasing after people who “attended Libby High between 1950 and 1999 and then moved away” constitute besieging the town?
By definition, these people aren’t in Libby anymore.
“asbestos mining” Jesus, is there a more crap laden job?
That must be a level of Dante’s hell.
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