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State Says Hundreds Of 9/11 Rescue Workers Now Dead, Admits
Undercount
First responders' representitive:"It's the tip of
the iceberg"
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New York State health officials have released statistics indicating
that 360 9/11 rescue workers have since died, but have also admitted
that there is an overall undercount.
The New
York Daily News reports that of those deaths 154
have been explained and 80 have died of various forms of cancer,
mostly impacting the lungs and digestive system while others were
related to blood cancers and heart and circulatory diseases.
"It's the tip of the iceberg," said
David Worby, who is representing 10,000 workers - 600 with cancer
- who say they got sick after working on rescue and recovery
efforts.
"These statistics bear out how toxic that site was,"
Worby said.
The Statistics were released by the World
Trade Center Responder Fatality Investigation Program.
While insisting the state is "not making judgment"
on whether all the deaths were related to the toxic air around
ground zero, which was filled with asbestos, mercury, lead and
other contaminants, official Kitty Gelberg did say that she believes
there to be an overall undercount of rescuers and workers who
have died since 9/11.
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In spite of the state's refusal to be drawn on whether
there has been an elevation in deaths due to 9/11, it was revealed
back In 2006, almost five years on from the disaster,
that there has been a startling increase in cases of a particular
lung scarring disease, known as sarcoidosis, among firefighters,
which rose to five times the expected rate in the two years after
the attacks.
At the time the New York Times reported:
"The most worrisome to medical experts are
granulomatous pulmonary diseases, which show a particular type
of swirling marks left on the lungs by foreign matter like dust.
Doctors say the severity of the disease is often dictated by
a patient's genetic makeup. The diseases include pulmonary fibrosis
and sarcoidosis, a sometimes fatal disorder that can be set
off when exposure to dust causes the body's immune system to
attack itself. "
Medical experts have stated that it still may be
at least another decade before the full effects of the attacks
are witnessed as diseases may take longer to develop in some people
than others. It is estimated that around 40,000 people were involved
in rescue work around the World Trade Center site and the Fresh
Kills landfill where debris was taken immediately following the
attacks.
The number effected may be significantly more than
that however given that a recent study
by Mount Sinai Medical Center revealed that out of
70,000 participants, 85 percent are suffering some kind of respiratory
problem.
A previous
study in 2006 by the medical center also found that
of of 9,442 workers, 70% suffer breathing problems. This was also
the figure gleened from a further
study in 2007.
Though the center's figures have been criticized
and questioned by some, they are the only real source
to go on given that the city, state and federal governments did
not engage in any form of research into or treatment of 9/11 related
illnesses for some time after the attacks, and still have not
set about a truly committed program to do so.
Dr. Robin Herbert, Co-director of the World Trade Center Medical
Monitoring Program at Mount Sinai has indicated that there may
be three "waves" of illnesses experienced by ground
zero workers. The first wave refers to coughing and respiratory
problems, the second wave includes severe chronic lung diseases
and the third wave could be fatal cancers.
Dr. Michael Baden, chief forensic pathologist for the New York
State Police and the former chief medical examiner of New York
City, has reviewed several ground zero-related autopsies, and
has commented "Three thousand people may have died, but 100,000
others may have been exposed".
We have extensively
reported on the fact that the EPA knowingly gave
misleading information to residents and workers regarding the
air quality in the aftermath of the attacks and how a cover up,
which leads to officials at the very top, has ensued.
The heroes of 9/11 have been shunned by a government
that still refuses cover the costs of healthcare for the vast
majority of the stricken because to do so would be an admission
of culpability.
Last month it was reported
that some of the heroes who have since succumbed to dust-related
illnesses will be memorialized on the NYPD's "Wall of Heroes"
for officers killed in the line of duty.
Sadly, more space will be needed on that wall in
the months and years to come as the officials ultimately responsible
for this continuing tragedy remain unpunished.
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