Mesothelioma risk greatest in UK among baby-boom carpenters

"A new study suggests that carpenters born in the 1940s are the most likely of all workers in the UK to develop asbestos-related mesothelioma. The study predicts that one in seventeen carpenters born in this period will die from the disease. One in fifty electricians, plumbers and decorators born in the 1940s will " (2009-3-9)
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