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:: Sunday, March 14, 2004 ::
Dying for a living By MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT, The Globe and Mail
Among the patterns are women who have had their lung cavities scarred because they've done something married women did without thinking in the 1960s and 1970s -- they washed their husband's work clothes. This isn't normally life-threatening, but it is if your husband's coveralls are dusted with asbestos. In other cases, industrial cancers are family affairs, afflicting multiple generations.
Mr. Brophy believes that what is now occurring in Sarnia is the country's biggest occupational-disease disaster. If current information is correct, 'Sarnia would have to be pretty close to the top, if not the top.'------------------------------------------- posted 8:00 AM :: reference link ::
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