The “World Trade Center cough” continues to affect several hundred New York City firefighters, police, and emergency workers, but little is known about the long-term effects of the condition, according to a panel of experts assembled here at CHEST 2002, the 68th annual meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians.
Moreover, it is likely that people who live and work in the area are similarly affected. David J. Prezant, MD, professor of medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, estimated that “300 to 500 New York City firemen will have long-term symptoms and impairment” as a result of days spent in the rubble of the fallen towers.
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