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Naturally occurring asbestos stretches fibers' deadly reach view story
Monday, June 20, 2005
Katy Human - - Denver Post
| Asbestos is most often associated with fireproof insulation in old buildings, or dying workers who handled the toxic fibers without protection.
But veins of natural asbestos wind through Colorado's mountains, California, the hills of Virginia and at least 12 other states. Worse, there's growing evidence that the natural fibers can be just as deadly as their commercial counterpart.
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