A tragic story - mesothelioma and asbestos cancer

Many asbestos cancer experts, lawyers and mesothelioma patients map asbestos material developed and used only in the 19th century. But in fact, asbestos was first discovered and named by the Greeks. In this article, we examine the facts of asbestos use in the course of centuries. We will see what was known about the dangers of asbestos cancer, and mesothelioma and asbestosis began as that are recognized today known tragic diseases are.
Asbestos and mesothelioma: from antiquity to the 21st century

In ancient Rome, asbestos fibres were flammable uses to clothing. In Greece were to make the fibers of other textiles. In Persia, clothes were for their ability to fire, instead of with water cleaned are appreciated. In China, Marco Polo of similar elements, which "were washed by dropping in flames" describes. These clothes could only are made of asbestos. After the fall of the Roman Empire and hide the great empires of the East, the use of asbestos seemed to stop.
Asbestos released from 1860 States and Canada was used as insulation for buildings again in the United States. In 1879, the first commercial asbestos mine in Canada, appeared just outside of Quebec. By the turn of the century, asbestos was much more often use: flame retardant coatings, concrete, flooring, covers, acid-resistant materials, and lawn furniture all asbestos had components.
With the rise of asbestos use was the first recorded death due to a Mesothelioma asbestos cancer. 1906 An asbestos miner died of asbestos cancer, but its most common cause of death was founded not later. Other instances of Mesotheliom--as an unknown lung Erkrankung--diagnosed were however observed throughout the century, particularly in asbestos mining towns.
Libby, Montana is a modern example of a mining town with asbestos contaminated. The EPA has to clean up Libby have been trying for 10 years, but 200 people have so far died on asbestos, with more than 1,000 ill made. The city was contaminated by a nearby vermiculite mine, threatened its inhabitants of waste products and discarded materials from mining operations.
The town of Libby has asbestos pollution despite today's interventions have been hit. In the early days was before detected Mesothelioma or asbestos poisoning considering even more dramatic, charged cities. Even if the dangers of asbestos, as well as his connections with mesothelioma, are clear, company has negligence even now still with impunity. The company responsible for the mine, which contaminated Libby was recently in a study centered around the death in the town acquitted. The mining company is no punishment, despite the hundreds of asbestos poisoning deaths and thousands of asbestos-related diseases in Libby face.
The first diagnosis of asbestos cancer, asbestosis and mesothelioma
1924-A doctor in England recognized the pattern of the disease and made the first diagnosis of asbestos cancer. At that time it was called asbestosis and the existence of mesothelioma are unknown. Nevertheless, the initial diagnosis creates a wave Coll. on asbestos handling-at least in England. The United Kingdom began regulating ventilation and established asbestosis as a "Excusable work related disease" in the 1930s. The United States took the same measures until almost 10 years later.
Around 1930, the medical community, mesothelioma, began to investigate a new disease with strange symptoms and little information at the time. You could observe only the symptoms: coughing, shortness of breath, and generalized chest/-Luftweg pain. Mesothelioma was not connected to asbestos or proposed until 1940 as asbestos cancer.
About the dangers of asbestos exposure knew what company?
The basis of the mesothelioma and asbestos cancer legislation is that many asbestos companies knew that the material was dangerous, but not employees and customers from these known dangers protect. Service of judicial documents showed that companies began to experience the associated health risks of asbestos, as early as 1930, but despite this know to protect anything, workers and consumers. Instead, they allowed to grow use as diagnosis of mesothelioma and asbestos cancer asbestos and grew.
Although limited by a complaint, issued a rule in 1989, that can be displayed to only trace amounts of asbestos in modern building materials environmental protection agency. Although stay asbestos remains contamination and threatened citizens, the modern world now recognizes the dangers of asbestos and not more than a primary material used.
The dangers of natural asbestos
Although asbestos most often through contact with asbestos asbestos occurs mines or products, there is also a disturbingly large number of so-called asbestos "occur" anywhere in the United States these sites be monitored not often by the EPA, nor has much has been done, clean them up or protection of the surrounding communities.
An asbestos "Event" is defined as a place where asbestos observed, but not dismantled or was prospected for mining. These veins of asbestos can be flat enough that asbestos dust in the air increases, so that the name "occur" misleading - they are more like "Threats." There are 205 such documented occurrence in the entire eastern part of the United States, and most of you have been discovered by anecdotal rather than active surveys. The Government has helped commercial use asbestos cleanup, but they have little control, the risks of exposure is done through the material in its natural state. Although not produced or milled, causing asbestos and its fibers of mesothelioma, asbestos cancer, asbestos poisoning and all other terrible conditions that can cause disease.
Mesothelioma and asbestos cancer today
Although asbestos has governed for 20 years, mesothelioma are still filed complaints because of the long incubation period of the disease. The cancer requires 20-50 years between exposure and the manifestation of symptoms, which at the beginning of symptoms are means that many workers, who handled asbestos at the height of its use only to show often. Unfortunately, the numbers of complaints to increase only expected to be. Asbestos cancer is tragic, and was in the course of history is tragic. But today we can defend themselves against the company, to protect us, and we know that the world for our children is safe.

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