Posted by Editor | Posted in Personal Injury News
While litigation has tied up some injury compensation settlements for the families of victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, others injured in the aftermath of the Twin Towers’ collapse are only now beginning to see the effects of the damage.
Workers who volunteered to search through the debris for trapped victims and help begin the cleanup process showed life-threatening respiratory illnesses after inhaling dust and fibers from Ground Zero.
A New York Times article from yesterday now notes the inflated rates of asthma appearing in individuals who were around the World Trade Center site when the buildings fell seven years ago. The study referred to in the article notes that 3,800 to 12,600 individuals have developed asthma since the attacks.
It’s just another reminder that though the nation has begun to put the trauma of seven years ago behind them, the sometimes deadly physical effects are in some ways only now appearing.
