Silicosis – why it’s back and how to find it
Silicosis was a disease of the distant past. Some of us remember stories about underground miners in the mid-20th century, working in terrible conditions in tunnels filled with the dust created from their old-fashioned pneumatic drills with only a cloth to filter the air. These mine workers would end up terribly disabled, slowly dying as their lungs were destroyed by chronic silicosis. Read More...