After five years, doctors have definitively established a link between work at Ground Zero and chronic respiratory illness; a study published last fall found nearly 70% of post-9/11 workers were likely to have lifelong breathing problems. But experts have been slower to officially link deaths to the exposure, saying it is easy to misinterpret some diseases, like cancer, as being connected to …
Illnesses rise among ground zero workers
Deborah Reeve got a cold, a cough and a fever that wouldn’t go away. It was more than two years after she had
Officials debate link between ground zero site and deaths
NEW YORK Deborah Reeve got a cold, a cough and a fever that wouldn’t go away. It was more than two years after she had left recovery efforts at ground zero. A month later, the nonsmoker was diagnosed with mesothelioma, an asbestos-related cancer. By last spring, the 41-year-old mother of two was dead. “My wife got killed on Sept. 11 and she didn’t die until March 15, 2006,” said her husband, …