Journalists the latest victims of 9/11 dust

[TonyGosling]

Journalists the latest victims of 9/11 dust

7 March 2008
By Jeffrey Blyth
Rescue workers and construction crews were not the only ones affected by exposure to dust and smoke at the collapse of the World Trade Centre - several journalists it now turns out have suffered ill health as a result.
One whose work has suffered is NY Times photographer Keith Meyers who cut short a holiday when the terrorists attacked and rushed to New York to help with the coverage at Ground Zero.
Four days later he flew over the scene in a Coast Guard helicopter to shoot some of the most dramatic aerial pictures of the scene. As he leaned out of the helicopter with his camera he could feel and smell the rising smoke.
"It was like breathing fire" he now recalls. "I could feel my skin tingling and burning". A doctor later told him - after he had suffered several severe asthma attacks - that he had probably been exposed to caustic chemicals.........

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