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Omaha Steve

(99,597 posts)
Tue Jul 29, 2014, 10:19 PM Jul 2014

9/11 Claimed Nearly 3000 Lives. Cancer Related to the Rescue and Clean Up May Claim 3000 More.


http://wepartypatriots.com/wp/2014/07/29/911-claimed-nearly-3000-lives-cancer-related-to-the-rescue-and-clean-up-may-claim-3000-more/




The official number of deaths resulting from the infamous 9/11 Al-Qaeda attacks stands at 2,996. But by the middle of this century, that number could as much as double.

That’s because more than 2,500 of the workers who helped in the crucial moments and months following the World Trade Center attacks have cancer.

The new total represents a substantial jump from the previously reported 1,140 cases and could rise even more. It is being gleaned from the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund and the World Trade Center Health Program as opposed to those who have visited private doctors, according to the New York Post:

In its latest tally, the World Trade Center Health Program at Mount Sinai Hospital counts 1,655 responders with cancer among the 37,000 cops, hard hats, sanitation workers, other city employees and volunteers it monitors, officials told The Post.

FULL story at link.



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Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)
1. People should sue
Tue Jul 29, 2014, 10:22 PM
Jul 2014

Larry ("Pull It&quot Silverstein. It was his mess. He didn't clean the buildings of Asbestos. He got paid enough instead of being in jail.

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