Post 9/11 Health Issues.

I didn't want 9/11 to pass without passing this along.
We have all read articles about the continuing medical effects from that day.
The link to the report is here: http://www.nyc.gov/html/om/pdf/2008/2008_mwg_annual_report.pdf
I encourage you all to read it. The report itself is only 20 pages. What the report refutes is certain assertions by the media that those who were there on the day and in the weeks and months after, be they victim or rescuer, are dying as a result.
As the report states, data is being gathered to determine if there is causal relationship of the 300-plus deaths to being at the WTC on the day of, the days after and since.
Also noteworthy in the report was that most post traumatic stress was resolved within six months after exposure. The group with the highest rate of PTSD was in volunteers. The report did not state what "volunteer" represented, so don't take it as "volunteer firefighters". They also had a "firefighter" group.
Give it a read. Pretty interesting for geeks like me.
TCSS.
Art

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Permalink Reply by Engineco913 on September 14, 2008 at 2:25pm

Art,

The gruesome reality (as most of us knew would happen with Asbestos, and the dust particulates and trauma caused byt he events) is being overlooked by the City of New York, and the insurance companies. They are looking through coke bottle glasses because they in the end don't want to pay. I know a group of volunteer firefighter who went down with a local fire department to ground zero. They were part of the "bucket line." They fought a fire in a neighboring building in assistance to FDNY. I know 2 of the 5 have developed cancer. Could it be chance that it occured, yes. Is there a possability that it's related, yes. Could it be that their brief 7 day exposure was enough, yes. Now I look at the much larger picture. I see the people who dedicate weeks and months to the city in efforts to recover, and remove the devestaton of the events. These people were all exposed. Residents were exposed. In the gruesome reality, the health effects shouldn't be nullified due to lack of a willingness to pay for treatments, and correct the issues.

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Permalink Reply by Art "ChiefReason" Goodrich on September 14, 2008 at 2:43pm

So true.
And you won't hear much out of the state of New York either.
NY OSHA was there to pass out respirators and to ensure that they were being worn.
Well, they had the respirators, all right, but they didn't enforce the donning of them.
Many refused to wear them, but had they been mandatory, you have to wonder how many would be experiencing a higher than average episodes of pulmonary ailments?
And the cancer? Well, it's doubtful that it was introduced through skin absorption or direct contact with the agent. So, we go back to inhalation. You only have to go back to the building codes of when the Towers were built to know that they were constructed with many cancer causing agents. But, I haven't heard too much about beryllium lately.
TCSS.
Art