Asbestos Kills One In Fifty Middle Aged Men

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New figures from the HSE show that Britain’s middle aged men are dying in ever increasing numbers from asbestos-related diseases.

The latest statistics on mesothelioma deaths in Great Britain show that between 1980 and 2000, 2,247 men aged between 45 and 60 died from mesothelioma, with probably another 4,500 dying from other asbestos-related diseases (chiefly lung cancer). That’s about two per cent of the 351,000 men in that age group who died in the last two decades of the twentieth cen... (63 more words)

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