World Trade Center dust-inhalation: assessing the fallout - The Lancet Respiratory Medicine

World Trade Center dust-inhalation: assessing the fallout - The Lancet Respiratory Medicine

Nearly 14 years after Al-Qaeda's Sept 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center (WTC) in New York City, USA, residents and others exposed to dust from the collapsed buildings continue to suffer and die from respiratory diseases—while efforts to study the epidemiology of these cases have been hampered by gaps in environmental sampling data, experts tell The Lancet Respiratory Medicine.