• "For every teacher who's exposed, how many children are there?"Rowen said: "I was responsible for building in my secondary school and I know first-hand that management of asbestos is not up to scratch.
• "There's a long latency period and children are more vulnerable if they are exposed early in their lives when their lungs are still developing.
• Bousted said: "Our asbestos register has over 500 members who know they have been exposed to asbestos but we believe that's a drop in the ocean and there will be many, many more teachers exposed who just don't know it."The campaigners want the government to carry out immediate air sampling of 100 schools in England and Wales, built at different times, to see whether asbestos is present.
• Building Schools for the Future doesn't automatically remove asbestos and local authorities aren't treating it seriously.
• They will also argue for an independent public body to be set up to look into and advise on asbestos in schools.
• According to Cancer Research UK, just over 2,100 people are diagnosed with mesothelioma, which is virtually untreatable, in the UK each year.
• Three-quarters of schools in England and Wales contain asbestos, and nearly 300 teachers and lecturers have died of mesothelioma – a cancer related to asbestos exposure – since 1980.
• Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, who is leading a joint campaign of all the teaching unions, said: "We've known about this issue for a while and have been campaigning for the last two years but it's really coming together now."She will join Paul Rowen, Liberal Democrat MP for Rochdale, a former deputy headteacher who has raised the issue in parliament, and asbestos expert and campaigner Michael Lees, whose wife died of mesothelioma in 2000, to urge Brown to carry out a national audit of asbestos in schools.

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• and three former executives were acquitted Friday of federal charges that they knowingly allowed residents of northwestern Montana town to be exposed to asbestos from its vermiculite mine.

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• and three former executives were acquitted Friday of federal charges that they knowingly allowed residents of northwestern Montana town to be exposed to asbestos from its vermiculite mine.
• Attorneys for some residents of the town of Libby blame tremolite asbestos from the vermiculite for about 2,000 cases of illness and about 225 deaths in and around the community.
• Miners carried asbestos home on their clothes, vermiculite used to cover school running tracks in Libby and some residents used vermiculite as mulch in their home gardens.
• The company and its one-time heads were accused of knowingly endangered the lives of mine workers and other residents of Libby, and ignoring warnings by state agencies to clean up the vermiculite mining operation.
• Gayla Benefield of Libby, who suffers health effects from asbestos exposure and lost both parents to asbestos-related lung diseases, said she doesn't know what the next step will be.
• Grace knew about the health hazards of asbestos, but covered it up "so they could continue making money as well as avoid liability," Assistant U.S.
• The town at the hub of an area with about 10,000 residents now has a health clinic devoted to asbestos-related disease.
• Libby has held asbestos "health fairs" and a local company got into the business of manufacturing backpack-style carriers for oxygen tanks used to aid the breathing of people with asbestos-scarred lungs.

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• and three former executives were acquitted Friday of federal charges that they knowingly allowed residents of northwestern Montana town to be exposed to asbestos from its vermiculite mine.
• Attorneys for some residents of the town of Libby blame tremolite asbestos from the vermiculite for about 2,000 cases of illness and about 225 deaths in and around the community.
• Miners carried asbestos home on their clothes, vermiculite used to cover school running tracks in Libby and some residents used vermiculite as mulch in their home gardens.
• The company and its one-time heads were accused of knowingly endangered the lives of mine workers and other residents of Libby, and ignoring warnings by state agencies to clean up the vermiculite mining operation.
• Gayla Benefield of Libby, who suffers health effects from asbestos exposure and lost both parents to asbestos-related lung diseases, said she doesn't know what the next step will be.
• The company knew about the health hazards of asbestos, but covered it up "so they could continue making money as well as avoid liability," Assistant U.S.
• The town at the hub of an area with about 10,000 residents now has a health clinic devoted to asbestos-related disease.
• Libby has held asbestos "health fairs" and a local company got into the business of manufacturing backpack-style carriers for oxygen tanks used to aid the breathing of people with asbestos-scarred lungs.

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• Helen Llewellyn, previously Frost, was aged 69 when she was diagnosed with mesothelioma five years ago.
• Mrs Llewellyn, who lived in Newcastle, is thought to have been occupationally exposed to asbestos in the course of her employment at the English Electric Company factory at Butt Lane between 1967 and 1968.
• Her family want to trace former colleagues who can confirm the nature of the work performed at the factory which would have brought Mrs Llewellyn into contact with asbestos dust.
• Her son, John Frost, aged 52, who lives in Ronaldsway Drive, Newcastle, said: "Mum started feeling unwell about five years ago and she went to see a specialist who diagnosed her with cancer caused by asbestos.
• "We checked through her employment history and the factory in Butt Lane was the only place where we thought she could have been exposed to asbestos.
• "Before she passed away she was a bit disillusioned that no-one had taken responsibility for her catching this awful disease and she insisted we kept on asking and pushing for answers." There are a variety of conditions which are thought to be caused by inhaling asbestos and they can take many years to develop.
• Mesothelioma, which Mrs Llewellyn suffered from, is an aggressive cancer which most commonly occurs in the lining of the lungs and is extremely rare in the absence of asbestos exposure.
• The Government has started handing out compensation to asbestos sufferers in some cases and Helen was writing a letter to the Prime Minister but unfortunately she was too unwell to finish it.
• We need her old workmates to come forward and tell us what kind of work Helen used to do so we can take this forward." The family's solicitor, Helen Childs said: "We need to locate former colleagues who can confirm the nature of the work performed at the Butt Lane factory which would have brought her into contact with asbestos dust.

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• The National Cancer Institute for example, has a wealth of valuable information on mesothelioma.
• He works closely with the asbestos lawyers and mesothelioma lawyers of Weitz & Luxenberg in raising awareness of the dangers of asbestos.
• Our mesothelioma attorneys have observed first hand the emotional, financial and health challenges faced by people who are living with mesothelioma.
• Weitz & Luxenberg is the leading asbestos and mesothelioma law firm in the U.S.
• Our mesothelioma attorneys have seen that this knowledge can help a person better prepare for the physical changes associated with mesothelioma.
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• Our mesothelioma lawyers have seen that support from loved ones can help a person cope with mesothelioma.

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• STUDENTS and staff at a Queensland school may have been exposed to asbestos fibres during a lunchtime airconditioning installation by a contractor.
• A CONTRACTOR installing an air-conditioning unit at school lunchtime may have exposed students and staff to asbestos.

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• David Jennings, 57, was diagnosed with mesothelioma in August and within a few months he was dead.
• He was scared and he couldn't bear to be touched." Mesothelioma attacks the protective linings covering the body's major organs and is almost always caused by exposure to asbestos.
• Symptoms of mesothelioma may not appear until 20 to 50 years after exposure.
• While working there, he was involved in the manufacture of fire doors, which used asbestos in their construction.
• Dr Andrew Hitchcock, a consultant pathologist at Derby City General Hospital, said he believed asbestos caused the illness which later claimed Mr Jennings's life.
• He told the court: "The cause of death was malignant mesothelioma.
• I have no difficulty in attributing this to asbestos exposure." He added: "In my career as a pathologist, I have never seen anybody survive mesothelioma.
• His brother said: "He began to have trouble with his breathing and soon he could barely do anything physical at all." South Derbyshire Coroner Dr Robert Hunter recorded a verdict of death by an industrial disease and said the disease was the result of exposure to asbestos.
• He said: "As an apprentice joiner, Mr Jennings helped make fire doors and was exposed to asbestos.

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• "There's a good possibility that I will suffer some long term effects from being exposed to asbestos," Statum said.
• They show white asbestos covering pipes as insulation in basement areas of the hospital.
• "I think this gives us an opportunity to improve." Investigative reporter Ben Hall asked, "Why wouldn't you notify employees about the location and presence of asbestos?" Beard replied, "Our employees were aware, I think, there is asbestos here.
• Airborne asbestos causes cancer.
• He says any employee going into certain basements will wear protective clothing and respirators until air quality tests show no dangerous asbestos levels.
• The VA stresses patients at the hospital were never in areas with asbestos.

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• Posted by: The X Factor, Glasgow on My quick google search confirms that pleural plaques are benign but that they are asocoated with a greater risk of lung disease.
• Clydeside Action on Asbestos was formed 23 years ago to fight for asbestos victims.
• Posted by: westendtrendy, Hillhead, Glasgow on Asbestosis isn't really a "diseace" it's just that the asbestos fibres in your lungs cause punctures and it takes over 30 yrs to notice and it's incurable.
• asbestos kills 200,000 people a year.
• there is no safe amount of asbestos.

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