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| Inhaling asbestos fibers can lead to lung diseases. |
A coroner ruled that a woman who washed her husband’s clothes died after contracting cancer from the asbestos dust from his overalls.
The woman contracted mesothelioma in the spring of 2011 and died in October the same year.
Her husband of more than 60 years was a carpenter and was working for a construction and renovation company, doing work that often involved handling asbestos-containing building materials such as ceiling tiles and asbestos-lined pipes.
His wife shook out his dusty clothes each day before washing them, which exposed her to asbestos fibers.
Asbestos fibers can be harmful when they are disturbed and inhaled.
They can penetrate deep into the lungs and cause lung disease such as asbestosis or cancer such as mesothelioma years after the exposure occurred.
The woman’s husband was arguably exposed to larger amounts of asbestos fibers, but never developed cancer.
Source: Reading Post
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This is such a tragic story! Proof that this toxic chemical not only affects those exposed, but also their family and close ones. I fear that our children will still be dealing with the effects of it 50 years from now. They recently found some of the toxic chemical in school science kits! http://bit.ly/AsbestosinSchoolBlog
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Workers who are exposed to Asbestos are generally not aware of it. That makes it more dangerous as people won't cover their nose and inhale more deeply into their lungs the dust of Asbestos which eventually causes cancer.
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