Worldwide trends
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MESOTHELIOMA, the dreaded cancer usually caused by past exposure to asbestos dust, is the single-biggest occupational health disaster in modern times.
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Decline in mesothelioma cases in Sweden |
| While deaths from the asbestos-caused cancerous disease, mesothelioma, are projected to peak in 2015-2020 worldwide, Sweden is thankfully witnessing a decline in mesothelioma cases. |
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Silent killer, asbestos
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An epidemic of asbestos-related diseases stares developed countries in their face. But these countries have lately banned or severely restricted the use of asbestos to ensure that the epidemic, after growing to its size, will not recur.
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Increasing mesothelioma in Dutch men |
| THE Netherlands is experiencing one of the highest incidences of the deadly cancer, mesothelioma, in the Western world.
From 1969 to 2002, the incidence of male mesothelioma in the Netherlands rose from only 70 to 325 a year. More recent studies indicate 1.39% of men born between 1945 and 1950 |
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Mesothelioma in the UK
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| Mesothelioma is a cancerous condition caused almost always by past exposure to asbestos fiber. Though a relatively rare disease, its incidence has risen 90% since 1992 to about 1,800 deaths annually, working out to one death every five hours. |
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Malignant pleural mesothelioma in Australia
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Australia has the world’s highest per capita rate of mesothelioma affliction with the worst yet to come. The type of mesothelioma most common in Australia is malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM), which affects the pleura
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Hazardous Asbestos Exposure in Latin America |
| LATIN America is in the throes of a health crisis caused by past and present exposure to asbestos. It is a crisis whose magnitude is not known due to lack of reliable data. This, however, does not make the poorer America immune to asbestos-related diseases. |
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Japan: A case of late awakening
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| Call it official irresponsibility or apathy, but Japan has a surprisingly long history of neglect of public health risks posed by asbestos. It took as long as year 2002 for Japan to ban asbestos when evidence of its carcinogenic properties were being prominently |
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Occupational cancer cases rising in France |
It’s a surprising revelation, coming as it does from a developed country like France, known also for its sensitivity to labor rights. A survey conducted in June 2006 showed a rather callous business attitude toward workers exposed to occupational health hazards, especially cancer. |
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mesothelioma compensation in Finland |
FINLAND pays a fairly extensive compensation for malignant diseases caused by occupational exposure to asbestos. The compensation is claimed from the state-run Accident Insurance Fund in the case of public sector employees and from private insurance companies for private sector employees. |
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Dying for a living in Canada |
CANADA, a country with an otherwise normal, perhaps laudable, record of international and domestic conduct, continues to behave strangely when it comes to occupational exposure to asbestos.
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Consumption of asbestos |
As developed countries ban or drastically curtail their consumption of asbestos, exporters of this carcinogenic material are working hard to develop alternative markets. Asia, the world’s largest continent with stark economic contrasts, is a fertile ground for asbestos exporters looking for new markets. |
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Asbestos deaths becoming epidemic in the US |
| AN epidemic of asbestos-caused diseases is lurking dangerously on the horizons of the United States. Already, as many as 10,000 people are succumbing to such diseases every year in the country. And since most cases are detected 15-50 years after the causative exposure to asbestos |
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