Asbestos: Still legal and in use — Reuters Investigates
by ReutersTV

Partial panorama of a colossal mountain of asbestos mine tailings waste dump; located in Thetford Mines / Black Lake Region in Quebec, Canada. photo: Wikimedia Commons
The word “asbestos” is enough to clear a room, if not a building. Reuters’ correspondent Ben Berkowitz explores the hazards of asbestos with Mark Van Baalen, a geologist at Harvard University, and Dr. David Sugarbaker, the chief of thoracic surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.


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