Researchers assessing health impacts of one of the nation's largest environmental disasters

Monday, November 2, 2009 - 16:28 in Health & Medicine

Over nearly a century, thousands of residents and workers in Libby, MT, have been exposed to asbestos-contaminated vermiculite ore, leading to markedly higher rates of lung disease and autoimmune disorders, and causing to Libby in 2002 to be added to the federal Environmental Protection Agency's "National Priorities List."

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