9/11 First Responders Continued To Report Health Problems For Six Years After Attacks

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.laborradio.org/node/11685

The Journal of the American Medical Association says rescue and recovery workers at the World Trade Center continued to report new health problems up to six years after the September 11th. Thirty-nine percent of the workers at the site and nearby residents reported developing asthma after the attacks. Twenty- four percent of the rescue workers experienced post traumatic stress disorder.