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It is not only firefighters and rescue workers who are suffering health effects from breathing the air at the site of the 9/11 attacks in New York; citizens who were in the area and survived are now falling ill with respiratory problems due to subtances inhaled such as asbestos, lead, dioxin and mercury. 
 
The article traces the effect on one upstate NY resident who was working in NY that day and was pulled from the rubble. He has nerve and respiratory disease but does not qualify for the same medical care that rescue employees do. 
 
There are doubtless thousands more who are in a similar situation, and authorities are urged to prepare for this impending health crisis.

9/11 health crisis hits 'average Joe'

Times Herald-Record - 6/13/2006 2:06 AM

Experts estimate more than 40,000 people worked at the World Trade Center site sifting through rubble; a class action lawsuit against the federal government includes 8,000 workers who and are suffering from health problems.
 
The air in and around Ground Zero, legal and health experts said yesterday, contained chemicals ranging from dioxin to mercury to asbestos to lead. It's caused otherwise healthy people to develop asthma, cancer and heart and lung problems, according to seminar speakers
 
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