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Ep 118 Asbestos: Corruption and cancer and corporate greed, oh my!

This Podcast Will Kill You

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Asbestos Exposure and Lung Cancer

We still consume between 1.3 and 2 million tons of asbestos around the world every year, according to some estimates. In terms of additional numbers on how many people are affected by this, it's estimated that over 3000 people died from asbestos worldwide in 2017. Mesophilia is a little bit hard to get total numbers on, but in the US between 1999 and 2018, there were almost 50,000 new cases of mesophilia of all types of mesophili that were diagnosed. And again, almost all of these are as a result of asbestos exposure.

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