Mesothelioma Information

Mesothelioma is a terrible disease but it is very rare. The biggest event of recent times to effect Mesothelioma or Asbestos Cancer without doubt will be the 9/11 disaster.
Some claim millions will be affected by Asbestos fibers from the towers collapse. The World Trade Center took four years to build and the buildings were built between 1968 and 1972. Asbestos was mixed with Cement and sprayed on walls of the buildings this practice was often used in those times as a good fireproof barrier. It has to be said and is in fact common knowledge that a lot of Asbestos was used in the construction of these buildings. When this disaster happened everybody could see the vast amount of dust and within this dust was a lot of Asbestos.
Dust from the disaster was said to have travelled up to a 10 mile radius. Ask yourselves this how many people were within a 10 mile radius? 100's or maybe 1000's no millions more likely. About 20 years after World War 2 there was a major increase of people diagnosed with Mesothelioma.
The increase in diagnosed numbers could only have been put down to the excessive use of Asbestos used in ship building and other industries. Why did the use Asbestos? Well it was readily available and it had fantastic fireproofing qualities.