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Asbestos has been widely used as an insulation material, friction product, and textile reinforcement, due to its unique combination of strength, flexibility, and resistance to heat and corrosion. Over the years, scientific studies have increasingly implicated the material as a cause of debilitating, fatal lung diseases. Protective standards have been adopted and progressively tightened, but human exposures continue to occur through ongoing use and from legacy buildings and equipment. Moreover, cases of asbestosis, lung cancer, and other diseases will be emerging for years to come because they occur after a long latency.Although most cases of asbestos-related disease have occurred from…
