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Cover-up by the industry of asbestos

In the years 1970, the US government in the ban on asbestos in the products in America. Although it from the dangers of asbestos were investigated and documented. Top of the Greek and Roman era itself was pointed out that the slaves, in the quarries of asbestos or wore clothes, from the tissues to asbestos suffered injuries to the lungs. At the end of the 20th Century, the doctors began to know that a number of problems of the respiratory tract and lung problems caused by the inhalation of asbestos dust. In 1906, for the first time a death was caused documented, which are caused by asbestos.

Most illnesses linked to asbestos have a very long latency period. Sometimes even up to 40 years. Thus the disease is not recognized by the name many years. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the various diseases that because of exposure to asbestos. However, in the years 1940 only that the mesothelioma has been identified, named. At each step, the companies that asbestos has tried to hide their actions. They have tried, the officials soudoyer and threaten to leave the researchers, all studies on the dangers of asbestos.

You have no guarantees for their employees. The guarantees which are not protected, their employees in the amiantose, mesothelioma and other diseases associated with asbestos,
§ protective clothing,
§ face masks,
§ protective gloves,
§ protection and shoes
§ a bath before going home for the industry or the mines and so on.

Since the asbestos companies do not want their employees to have a suspicion of the dangers of asbestos, they have none of these guarantees for their employees. Therefore, they have hidden the medical reports from employees who have died because of the deaths from asbestos. All of this information was hidden, the other employees. Many large companies encounter numerous court proceedings relating to asbestos. To prevent such problems, trübten their legal status, they have asked their lawyers to such cases from court. Then, the main asbestos conducted a search of studies, which are about the hazards of working with asbestos. If the results of these studies have been published, smothered the industry for most of the research results and shocking released, as amended towards its employees and the public.

The dangers caused by asbestos will be limited not only to asbestosis, warts and fibrosis of asbestos, but also of lung cancer. Asbestos first leads to respiratory complaints, heart enlargement, dry cough and cough blood. Although this sounds, lung cancer is still terrible. Caused tumors in the body, such as lung, heart or abdomen. These tumors can spread in the body, with the death as inevitable to conclude the suffering of the patients.

Once the asbestos believed that asbestos caused cancer, they are curious. They began to use these reports to cover. They believe that their fear of the economic benefits are at risk. So they can not worry about the dangers of asbestos on the health of their employees. In some factories, supervisors and others who knew the dangers of asbestos, has tried to certain guarantees for the workers. However, the owner tried to stop them because they do not want their workers have the same idea about the dangers of asbestos causes.

Despite all this, several experts of the health care and research institutions made it clear the reports, in which the terrible health problems caused by asbestos exposure. Only in the years 1970, measures were taken to asbestos exposure. In 1973 it was declared that the spraying of asbestos insulation is an air pollution threat. Afterwards, the EPA banned spray on the insulators from asbestos. Moreover, at the end of 1970, the information has begun to surface that the asbestos companies and the industry on the dangers of asbestos and the removal of valuable information. He bored and irritated the people of the whole world that their employers were their selfish gains. Also, the companies want to avoid the legal risks for workers and their families.

Thereafter, the United States has all types of asbestos. Many other countries have also example of the United States, but the damage was too long back. The deletion of information no other choice for the workers, and therefore, they are the asbestos. Because of the long latency period of illnesses associated with asbestos, such as mesothelioma, these people continue with these diseases, and it will continue to suffer for one or two more years.

Asbestos - a thin and very enemy

During the centuries, asbestos was used. Thousands of workers are the risks of this mineral has several properties, the benefits, but on the other hand people in the death.

First, the relationship between asbestos and the deaths of some workers are not clearly identified. The Greek geographer Strabo, the Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder noticed something unusual in relation to the workers, with the asbestos. So there was a disease in the lungs of the slaves who worked with asbestos.

Despite the evidence, disease, in connection with the use of asbestos were long ignored. Only in the course of the year 1931, the first laws were in England with the aim of creating preventive measures.

The use of asbestos

The Greek people called this mineral asbestos unite two words in Greek: a, for the non-sbestos, extinguishable. Also, asbestos inextinguible means, which can be easily understood once it on the effects of this mineral in the lungs of workers.

Asbestos was widely used because of their different properties. This is fire-resistant mineral, in some chemical reactions, and it is also waterproof. Because of this property to be fire-resistant, it has sold unreliability of the dealers, the cross - has been reported, the song from the cross where Jesus Christ was hanged - from asbestos. Since the asbestos is a presentation of old wood, it could easily be sold and the fire resistance is the perfect excuse to sell.

In the years 1800, the use of asbestos due to the increased industrial revolution. He began deployment in the world, without regard to the working conditions. More than 3000 parts of the industrial production of asbestos used in the manufacture of their products, which helped a little, the development of a disease diagnosed in persons exposed to asbestos.

The conditions for health in relation to asbestos exposure

During the centuries, asbestos was used. And during the decades, its effects were simply ignored. Doctors some deaths associated with exposure to asbestos, but it took many years before the first measures taken.

During the industrial revolution, and in the following years, the working conditions were much despised. At that time, it was not important for them, as people are working under, but at what speed and efficiency with which they can do their work. This situation has helped that the number of persons, the problems of the respiratory tract.

The problem and the threat to health in relation to asbestos is a simple measure: the inhalation of particles from the spreading of this mineral. If the particles are inhaled, it is not a danger. But the truth is that working with asbestos, it is almost impossible not to inhale the particles.

The particles attach to the inhalation into the lung tissue, leading to a type of cancer known as mesothelioma, or amiantose. The Mesothelioma is the cancer of the chest and abdominal skin conditions. If it is, it is usually too late to do anything, it is often fatal. In addition, mesothelioma, a long time in the still latent: It may go unnoticed, while 15 to 60 years.

The amiantose is a disease of the elasticity of the lungs so that it is difficult for the institutions to exchange gas, resulting in a low oxygen supply to the blood. It restricts breathing and can go unnoticed to a maximum of 30 years.

Even with the measures for the prevention of laws, the number of deaths associated with exposure to asbestos has increased. In 1968, there were 153 deaths caused by mesothelioma, but in 2003, the statistics show 1874 deaths. And it is not number one world: it is registered in the UK.