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Monday, April 27, 2009
An article in the CDC’s most recent weekly bulletin notes that deaths related to mesothelioma still seem to be on the rise in the United States. The CDC report aggregated data between 1999 and 2005 and determined that mesothelioma deaths increased every year (save one) during that time period. The CDC said it still expects deaths to level off by 2010 and then begin a slow decline after that, but the still increasing number of deaths from mesothelioma are a clear indication that the tragic history of asbestos use is still at work today.
CDC Chart: Number of Malignant Mesothelioma Deaths Among Persons Aged >25 Years (United States, 1999–2005)
1999: 2,482
2000: 2,530
2001: 2,505
2002: 2,570
2003: 2,621
2004: 2,656
2005: 2,704
Total: 18,068
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posted by Joseph DiCastro at 4:11 PM
