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Health problems afflict World Trade Center firefighters
Many firefighters who rushed to the World Trade Center site after the attack now suffer respiratory illnesses from contaminated air. Some have asthma or chronic coughs, with a few hundred on medical leave or light duty. Attorneys say about 700 firefighters and 300 other responders have filed notices to preserve the right to sue the city. Experts warn of long term cancer risks and asbestos exposure, while respirator use varied in the early days.
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New York
Fire Department
Frank Gribbon
Trade Center
Gribbon
Ground Zero
Tom Manley
Uniformed Firefighters Association
Manley
The
World Trade Center
Michael _Barasch
Barasch
Philip J. Landrigan
Department of
Community and Preventive Medicine
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Landrigan
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Environmental Protection Agency
Cate Jenkins
EPA
Jenkins
the Post-Dispatch
Port Authority
Post- Dispatch
Stephen Levin
Mount Sinai
Irving J. Selikoff
Center For
Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Post-Dispatch
Levin