Asbestos continues its menacing attack on a global scale

‘Despite what is essentially a global ban on its use, along with a concerted effort to get rid of it, asbestos – once touted as a safe fire retardant – still plagues much of the world, and continues to cause cancer.
As reported by Chemical and Engineering News, Serafina Salucci remembers growing up in suburban Sydney, Australia, and, as a 7-year-old, playing with white wall sheeting materials that were left over from her father’s renovation of the family’s garage. She recalls using it like chalk to write on the driveway, and even tossed small pieces of it back and forth with her brothers.
Salucci didn’t realize at the time that the sheeting held carcinogenic asbestos fibers that would later be blamed for her mesothelioma, an incurable cancer that attacks the lining of the lungs.’
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