Healthcare

Why people are still getting sick 16 years after the 9/11 attacks

By Lydia Ramsey of Business Insider
Published September 11, 2017 8:01pm ET
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Why people are still getting sick 16 years after the 9/11 attacks
In this Oct. 11, 2001 file photo, firefighters make their way over the ruins of the World Trade Center through clouds of smoke at ground zero in New York. Sixteen years of study has answered only a handful of questions about the hundreds of health conditions believed to be related to the tons of gray dust that fell on the city when the trade center collapsed, from post-traumatic stress disorder, asthma and respiratory illness to vitamin deficiencies, strange rashes and cancer. (AP Photo/Stan Honda, Pool) | Stan Honda

Esther Regelson lived two blocks south of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.

She was there when the towers collapsed, spewing dust that was filled with hundreds of carcinogenic substances, including jet fuel, asbestos, lead, mercury, and fibrous gas.

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