Comments on: Can you get black lung disease from working in gold mines? http://copdlungdisease.com/can-you-get-black-lung-disease-from-working-in-gold-mines.html Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:11:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Chet http://copdlungdisease.com/can-you-get-black-lung-disease-from-working-in-gold-mines.html/comment-page-1#comment-714 Chet Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:42:26 +0000 http://copdlungdisease.com/can-you-get-black-lung-disease-from-working-in-gold-mines.html#comment-714 Black-lung disease is due to breathing unfiltered air. Extreme temperatures, exhaustion and poor ventilation exact a high toll. Silicosis, or black-lung disease, caused by years of breathing unfiltered, dust-saturated air will take a man's life in ten years. The hospital in Potosi, for example, is filled with men who depend on bottled oxygen to live. They know their time is limited, their lives cut short by the mine. Black-lung disease is due to breathing unfiltered air.

Extreme temperatures, exhaustion and poor ventilation exact a high toll. Silicosis, or black-lung disease, caused by years of breathing unfiltered, dust-saturated air will take a man’s life in ten years. The hospital in Potosi, for example, is filled with men who depend on bottled oxygen to live. They know their time is limited, their lives cut short by the mine.

]]> By: bandaidgirl http://copdlungdisease.com/can-you-get-black-lung-disease-from-working-in-gold-mines.html/comment-page-1#comment-715 bandaidgirl Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:42:26 +0000 http://copdlungdisease.com/can-you-get-black-lung-disease-from-working-in-gold-mines.html#comment-715 I do believe that the BLACK part of BLACK LUNG DISEASE...is caused by workers inhaling dust stirred up in a COAL MINE..... But I don't know if this refers also to GOLD MINES... I do believe that the BLACK part of BLACK LUNG DISEASE…is caused by workers inhaling dust stirred up in a COAL MINE…..

But I don’t know if this refers also to GOLD MINES…

]]> By: Crys http://copdlungdisease.com/can-you-get-black-lung-disease-from-working-in-gold-mines.html/comment-page-1#comment-716 Crys Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:42:26 +0000 http://copdlungdisease.com/can-you-get-black-lung-disease-from-working-in-gold-mines.html#comment-716 I'll be serious but this sounds funny, ok black lung is from the coal mines, white lung is something you get from the sand mines so maybe you get gold lung? I mean it would be a similar disease process but the color itself would be different. I’ll be serious but this sounds funny, ok black lung is from the coal mines, white lung is something you get from the sand mines so maybe you get gold lung? I mean it would be a similar disease process but the color itself would be different.

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