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ATSDR

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ATSDRAgency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry


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Neighbors and politicians lambasted the study as inadequate and the ATSDR hired the Eastern Research Group in Massachusetts to conduct an independent public health study.
There is some sort of genetic susceptibility, but that doesn't explain why people get the disease, so it's hypothesized that there is some environmental trigger, but we are not sure what that environmental trigger is," says Dhelia Williamson, an epidemiologist and coordinator for the study at ATSDR, a subagency of the US Department of Health and Human Services.
On that front, there is plenty of cause for concern: Although their exposure levels were likely much higher than in Minneapolis, a recent ATSDR mortality review of Libby residents found that for a 20-year period, deaths from asbestosis were about 60 times higher than in the rest of the U.
 
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