Re:Why is asbestos still killing people?
by sliverstorm on Thursday April 24, 2014 @01:32AM
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It certainly doesn't help that (supposedly) only some types of asbestos are dangerous.
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Re:Why is asbestos still killing people?
by rgbrenner on Thursday April 24, 2014 @01:49AM
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The white asbestos (chrysotile) that the article talks about is listed as a carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer and the US Dept of Health.
Re:Why is asbestos still killing people?
by sliverstorm on Thursday April 24, 2014 @10:27AM
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Right, what I mean is all asbestos is treated as if it was chrysotile, when not all is. That kind of contributes to the feeling of "wow are we overblowing this?"- even if we aren't.
Re:Why is asbestos still killing people?
by thrownaway2424 on Thursday April 24, 2014 @11:41PM
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From what I've read, all the other kinds of asbestos are definitely, obviously terrifying. The debate is whether chrysotile, or some variants of it, are dangerous and to what degree.
From the US National Institute of Health (NIH) report on Asbestos. First sentence:
Asbestos and all commercial forms of asbestos are known to be human carcinogens based on sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity in humans.
You can read the rest if you want more info:
http://web.archive.org/web/20110429155522/http://ntp.niehs.n...