Mesothelioma

"For years I watched people I know get sick, and no one knew why," said Carlson, a maintenance engineer at U.S.

Steel's Minntac plant in Mountain Iron, a town that bills itself as "Taconite Capital of the World." (Taconite is a low-grade iron ore used to make steel.) The Health Department had recorded 17 But last month, the department reported that new analysis had raised the number to 52, all men.

Since 1988, the rate of That's made it more difficult for scientists to link mine work and the disease, and also left many miners wondering if a That conclu...

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