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Asbestos Exposure
Asbestos Exposure
Abstract: It is found that 545 million Many centuries later Benjamin Franklin
people also used the term “salamander
in the world had chronic respiratory cotton”. In modern times “Linen and
disease. It is the third leading cause of salamander ” were the two terms used.
death ,world wide causing 3.23 million Indeed, mass producers of the first
deaths in 2019. According to IARC thermo- resistant mattresses used the
estimates in Columbia, 88 new cases of trade name “salamandra”. Even as late as
mesothelioma were diagnosed in 2018 , the 1950s,a well-affirmed occupational
representing 0.1 percent of the total specialist Ernst Bader, defined, in his 5th
number of new cancer cases with 72 Edition on occupational pathology, this
cancer(GLOBOCAN,2018).The
deaths caused by this future malignancy, new disease of pneumoconiosis as
scenarios
representingas0.17to percent
the mesothelioma
of mortality “Bergflachs- lunge”, in which translated
incidence
due in countries, where asbestos has form of it means “mountain linen lung.
been banned, are discussed. Is asbestos
removal the only option? He also described about how asbestos
was extracted.