ON the ground, the legacy of 9/11 is starting to emerge from the dust.
Volunteers and emergency workers at ground zero as well as New York residents have been complaining of health problems since the attacks five years ago. Now doctors at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York say the problems are more serious, persistent and widespread than previously thought.
“An estimated 40,000 rescue and recovery workers were exposed to caustic dust and airborne toxic pollutants,” says Philip Landrigan, who led the study. It found that of the 9500 ground-zero workers studied, almost 70 per cent of them had a new or substantially worsened respiratory…
