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- How Black Lung Came Roaring Back to Coal Country – DNyuz
When Dr Cohen and his colleagues analyzed the lung tissue of 13 miners from West Virginia, Kentucky and Pennsylvania, they were alarmed to find that only one had a classic coal-based form of black lung The others all had a form of silicosis, a lung disease more closely associated with stonecutters
- Black Lung Returns To Coal Country - NPR
July 19, 2018 • In central Appalachia, one in five working coal miners with at least 25 years experience underground now suffers from the deadly disease black lung, according to a new study A
- Black Lung Disease Back and Worse Than Before, Inside . . .
Today, conditions underground have changed, and the disease has come roaring back For this episode of Inside Appalachia, we are taking another listen to this show which aired in the spring Black lung, also known as coal workers’ pneumoconiosis, is caused by long-term exposure to coal dust in the process of mining
- Black lung is back: Disease’s deadliest form sees ten-fold . . .
Since 2005, black lung cases have tripled in the region Instances of PMF, which leaves massive scarring on the lungs, have increased tenfold among long-term miners A study published last fall
- The Young Miners Dying of “An Old Man’s Disease”
Across Central Appalachia — and specifically Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia — coal miners are struggling to breathe Many of them aren’t much older than Moore — and many are much
- Black Lung: Reclaiming Coal Country - Blue Ridge Outdoors . . .
A recent alarming leap in black lung—attributed to blasting through thicker rock in search of thinning coal seams—has galvanized a scrappy coalition in Kentucky and other Appalachian states intent on forcing Congress to lend more than lip service to the scarred bodies and landscapes left behind by more than a century of mining
- Black lung surges back in coal country – Center for Public . . .
After decades of decline, black lung is back Its resurgence is concentrated in central Appalachia Younger miners are increasingly getting the most severe, fastest-progressing form of the disease
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