MESO EMERGES AS A WORLD WIDE HEALTH CRISIS
Not really news - but what we all knew is now official.
Malignant mesothelioma is one of the deadliest cancers known to modern medical science. This aggressive disease, almost always caused by exposure to asbestos, kills more than 2,500 Americans each year. But the rapidly evolving crisis of mesothelioma is not unique to the United States. In countries such as the U.K. and Australia, where asbestos use continued well into the 1980s, the disease is leaving an equally tragic footprint.
One authority predicts that the number of mesothelioma deaths in the U.K. will eventually exceed the U.S., reaching 65,000 between 2002 and 2050.