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State Says Hundreds Of 9/11 Rescue Workers Now Dead, Admits Undercount
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Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Friday, May 9, 2008
New York State health officials have released statistics indicating that 360 9/11 rescue workers have since died, but have also admitted that there is an overall undercount.
The New York Daily News reports that of those deaths 154 have been explained and 80 have died of various forms of cancer, mostly impacting the lungs and digestive system while others were related to blood cancers and heart and circulatory diseases.
"It’s the tip of the iceberg," said David Worby, who is representing 10,000 workers – 600 with cancer – who say they got sick after working on rescue and recovery efforts.
"These statistics bear out how toxic that site was," Worby said.
The Statistics were released by the World Trade Center Responder Fatality Investigation Program.
While insisting the state is "not making judgment" on whether all the deaths were related to the toxic air around ground zero, which was filled with asbestos, mercury, lead and other contaminants, official Kitty Gelberg did say that she believes there to be an overall undercount of rescuers and workers who have died since 9/11.
In spite of the state’s refusal to be drawn on whether there has been an elevation in deaths due to 9/11, it was revealed back In 2006, almost five years on from the disaster, that there has been a startling increase in cases of a particular lung scarring disease, known as sarcoidosis, among firefighters, which rose to five times the expected rate in the two years after the attacks.
At the time the New York Times reported:
"The most worrisome to medical experts are granulomatous pulmonary diseases, which show a particular type of swirling marks left on the lungs by foreign matter like dust. Doctors say the severity of the disease is often dictated by a patient’s genetic makeup. The diseases include pulmonary fibrosis and sarcoidosis, a sometimes fatal disorder that can be set off when exposure to dust causes the body’s immune system to attack itself. "
Medical experts have stated that it still may be at least another decade before the full effects of the attacks are witnessed as diseases may take longer to develop in some people than others. It is estimated that around 40,000 people were involved in rescue work around the World Trade Center site and the Fresh Kills landfill where debris was taken immediately following the attacks.
The number effected may be significantly more than that however given that a recent study by Mount Sinai Medical Center revealed that out of 70,000 participants, 85 percent are suffering some kind of respiratory problem.
A previous study in 2006 by the medical center also found that of of 9,442 workers, 70% suffer breathing problems. This was also the figure gleened from a further study in 2007.
Though the center’s figures have been criticized and questioned by some, they are the only real source to go on given that the city, state and federal governments did not engage in any form of research into or treatment of 9/11 related illnesses for some time after the attacks, and still have not set about a truly committed program to do so.
Dr. Robin Herbert, Co-director of the World Trade Center Medical Monitoring Program at Mount Sinai has indicated that there may be three "waves" of illnesses experienced by ground zero workers. The first wave refers to coughing and respiratory problems, the second wave includes severe chronic lung diseases and the third wave could be fatal cancers.
Dr. Michael Baden, chief forensic pathologist for the New York State Police and the former chief medical examiner of New York City, has reviewed several ground zero-related autopsies, and has commented "Three thousand people may have died, but 100,000 others may have been exposed".
We have extensively reported on the fact that the EPA knowingly gave misleading information to residents and workers regarding the air quality in the aftermath of the attacks and how a cover up, which leads to officials at the very top, has ensued.
The heroes of 9/11 have been shunned by a government that still refuses cover the costs of healthcare for the vast majority of the stricken because to do so would be an admission of culpability.
Last month it was reported that some of the heroes who have since succumbed to dust-related illnesses will be memorialized on the NYPD’s "Wall of Heroes" for officers killed in the line of duty.
Sadly, more space will be needed on that wall in the months and years to come as the officials ultimately responsible for this continuing tragedy remain unpunished.
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May 9th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
Greatest of Rewards From The Monster You Serve…..SALUTE!
May 9th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Sad just Sad! Damn these responsible to hell!
May 9th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
The neocon body count will only continue to grow:
9/11 civilians 3000
Iraqi civilians 750,000
Afghan civlians 8500
9/11 first responders 360
American troops 4000
It’s probably a lot higher, but I’m sure the neocons don’t give a rat’s ass either way…
May 9th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
Of course not one cent will be allocated to help those still alive/dying unless they can PROVE that their personal medical problems are a result of ground zero toxicity.
May 9th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
…not to mention the increase of chronic respiratory illness in the people who lived & worked within blocks of the area.
May 9th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Not to mention all the radioactive fall-out from those mini-nukes they used on that orchestrated and controlled mass demolition.
May 9th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
Our current President is truly “King of the Sewer.”
May 9th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
They still won’t help the people that are not dead yet but still sick. They would help only if they were illegal immigrants.
May 9th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
sue al qaeda! team up with oj & find the real killers. in the 60’s, they held, sit-ins. we need bush indicted or arrested by the provost marshal. what r u willing 2 do besides veg at ur computer?
May 9th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
I wonder about the causes and death rate of those ’special’ people who
planned, or who were warned and didn’t show up for work on 9/11.
I wonder about that ‘corporate head’ who, sitting in his luxurious
penthouse apartment, held a scheduled telephone conference with his
staff at the time the bombs went off, hearing them cry for help, listening
and enjoying the misery and hell he created for his Zionist and
catholic pleasure just to worship at the altar of Mammon.
I wonder if you people who did this ever look at yourselves in the
mirror, and think about how it feels to have escaped this holocaust
- the *real* holocaust – to live in that unholy shell of a body you’re in.
Knowing what a coward, how evil you are and how true it is what
they say about you people in your synagogue/cathedrals of satan. Studying
your Talmud, your protocols, your popish bulls and canons, finding
and implementing ways to justify murdering people, *and* if you
ever think about what your reward will be when God’s Wrath sizes
you up, takes you down and you cry for death, but death will not come.
I hope you remember that corrupt shell you live in will be roasted for
all eternity.
Perhaps you might repent of your sins and set about to bring down
the rest of your insect friends to change the course you planned and
give life instead of taking it.
May 10th, 2008 at 12:34 am
ya figure the air would be deadly. Tiny pieces of glass, steel, asbestos, and bone fragments small enough to breath is bound to be bad.
May 10th, 2008 at 12:40 am
The NWO are completely emotionless, 9/11 to them, was nothing more than almost complete success.
May 10th, 2008 at 2:16 am
The only up side to this is they criminally opened Wall Street to business soon after before the dust was gone. A few of the banker class elite may spit their lungs up as well, though they of course will have generous health care, as will that vermin Hilary Clinton and Mayor Giuliani, who was painted as some sot of saint after 911, as if he personally stood on the towers in a last desperate effort to swat away the incoming planes.
This makes me incredibly angry. The numbers of dead will far exceed the WTC victims, and unlike those tragic first 3000, the slow burn victims will have months and years of pain and discomfort, to them and their families.
May 10th, 2008 at 4:11 am
This looks like a good place to put this.
Al Gore and the safest environmental program he and clinton squashed
http://texpundit.com/alternati.....ent-fraud/
May 10th, 2008 at 6:14 am
america u r sick…
May 10th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
Most people, sometime in their lives, stumble across truth. Most jump up, brush themselves off, and hurry on about their business as if nothing had happened.
May 11th, 2008 at 9:19 am
I was there…I breathed the dust…Why won’t you wake up America? Most of the people I have tried to wake up say to to me “Prove that you were there!” I told one necon, that I used to work with, that they were filling pot holes in NYC with the remains of victims. He responsed, “SO?”
Just recently my mother-in-law, who knows that I was there, told me that I need to leave the country, because of my views. It was a typical pre-conditioned response from Bill O’Reilly she was regurgitating.
I am sick of this BS!!!! Work harder to spread the Truth…America has to wake up. My life and your lives are now seriously on the line.