제 목 : German Asbestos Deaths on the Rise
일 자 : 1998년 02월
제공처 : safety + Health(GLOBAL Update)
< German Asbestos Deaths on the Rise >
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The German national workers-compensation insurance organrzation has
reported a significant rise in the number of asbestos-related death
in Germany over previous years. Press officer Andreas Baader says that
1,124 deaths occurred in 1996 from asbestos. Figure in deaths of agricu-
tural workers and government employees - groups covered by differ-
ent insurance organrzations - and the overall death toll rises by 2
percent, Baader says.
Current totals virtually double the number of asbestos-relate
deaths from 1996, according to Baader. The sharp rise is due mainly
to the long latency perioJ of asbestos-related cancers, in which symp-
toms often take 30 to 40 years to develop.
Before the early '90s, only 200-500 cases were recorded each year in
what was then West Germany. The insurance organization believes that
the German death rare may peak a around 1,400 cases per year in 2010
and then fall away. Restrictions or the use and production of asbestos
based material have been in place since 1972.
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