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Va. miners more vulnerable to threat from black lung
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ROANOKE, Va. - Black lung disease is posing a greater threat to
coal miners in far southwest Virginia, and scientists aren't sure
why.
A report released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention shows that the number of cases of black lung disease is
rising in Lee and Wise counties and that the cases are more severe.
Scientists are still analyzing data from Dickenson, Russell, Tazewell
and Buchanan counties.
Black lung disease - known medically as coal workers'
pneumoconiosis - is caused by inhalation of coal dust. After a
federal law was passed in 1969 setting dust limits to ...
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