Asbestos-Related Cancer
Asbestos ban in Italy needs enforcement to reverse related cancers
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, August 31st, 2004
According to a study from Italy, "Asbestos-related diseases remain common in Italy due to past exposures that were tolerated by a government distracted and manipulated by multinational asbestos corporations."
"The incidence of asbestos-related cancers has taken on almost epidemic proportions, for example, in Casale Monferrato in northwest Italy, where Eternit remained in operation until 1985, and in Monfalcone in northeast Italy, where naval dockyards and related activities created pollution," D. Degiovanni and colleagues reported.
"Authorities took...
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