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Mount Sinai assessing health impacts of 1 of the nation's largest environmental disasters


Over nearly a century, thousands of residents and workers in Libby, Mont., have been exposed to asbestos-contaminated vermiculite ore, leading to markedly higher rates of lung disease and autoimmune disorders, and causing to Libby in 2002 to be added to t ...

Source: The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Monday, November 2, 2009