Want to avoid having an incurable respiratory disease?

Wear a respirator and use filtration and ventilation. Not talking about a pandemic in this case. #silicosis #pottery

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-15/ceramics-silicosis-pottery-lung-health-warning/102220206

Today in Labor History March 30, 1930: Three thousand workers, mostly African-American, began construction on the Hawks Nest Tunnel in West Virginia. The employer cut costs by failing to provide safety equipment. Additionally, bosses forced the men to work 10-15-hour days, often at gunpoint, without breaks and without masks to protect themselves from the silicon dust. Consequently, hundreds of workers died of silicosis. Possibly over 1,000 people, one-third of the entire workforce, died from silicosis, in one of America’s worst cases of mass workplace mortality.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #WorkplaceInjury #WorkplaceDeaths #HawksNest #racism #silicosis #ForcedLabor #slavery

We really appreciated
federal Health Minister Mark Butler's strong comments on the health harms of #vaping and #silicosis, and in defence of trans people during his interview on RN Breakfast today. Listen here: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/can-australia-curb-its-vaping-addiction-/102133292 #PublicHealth

#Silicosis: How engineered #stone is killing #tradies https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-detail/story/2018881580/silicosis-how-engineered-stone-is-killing-tradies

What your dream renovation is really doing to workers' health | 60 Minutes Australia - Invidious

https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=q_hUJmtsucg

#silicosis #homerenovation #engineeredstone #caesarstone

#homerenovation

What your dream renovation is really doing to workers' health | 60 Minutes Australia - Invidious

https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=q_hUJmtsucg

#silicosis #homerenovation #engineeredstone

✨NEW PAPER✨Imagine you’ve got a piece of plastic stuck in your stomach - stabbing, poking, and prodding constantly. Besides being incredibly uncomfortable, what would that do to your delicate internal tissues?
One of our #AdriftLab Honours students (Hayley) has just published her first, first-author paper in the Journal of Hazardous Materials, investigating the effect that #PlasticIngestion has on the formation of scar tissue within the stomach of #seabirds from #LordHoweIsland. While scar tissue formation is a natural part of the healing process, excessive scarring can impact tissue function and cause disease, known as #fibrosis #OpenAccess paper here ➡️ sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We found plastic ingestion was significantly related to severe, organ-wide scar tissue formation in the stomach, with some birds exhibiting a near-complete loss of tissue structure (photo panel on LEFT: collagen/scar tissue has stained blue). This is the first time plastic-related scar tissue formation has been documented in wild animals, but what we could see was so severe that it also led us to propose a new disease, #Plasticosis – fibrosis as a result of plastic.
As >1200 species are already documented to ingest plastic across both aquatic and terrestrial environments (including us!), our findings have major implications.
#WomenInSTEM #seabirds #PlasticPollution #SubLethalEffects #Microplastics #Nanoplastics #silicosis @SeabirdSentinel @TheLabAndField

✨New paper alert✨Imagine you’ve got a piece of plastic stuck in your stomach - stabbing, poking, and prodding constantly. Besides being incredibly uncomfortable, what would that do to your delicate internal tissues?

One of our #AdriftLab Honours students (Hayley) has just published her first, first-author paper in the Journal of Hazardous Materials, investigating the effect that #PlasticIngestion has on the formation of scar tissue within the stomach of #seabirds from #LordHoweIsland. While scar tissue formation is a natural part of the healing process, excessive scarring can impact tissue function and cause disease, known as #fibrosis #OpenAccess paper here ➡️ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0304389423003722

We found plastic ingestion was significantly related to severe, organ-wide scar tissue formation in the stomach, with some birds exhibiting a near-complete loss of tissue structure (photo panel on LEFT: collagen/scar tissue has stained blue). This is the first time plastic-related scar tissue formation has been documented in wild animals, but what we could see was so severe that it also led us to propose a new disease, #Plasticosis – fibrosis as a result of plastic.

As >1200 species are already documented to ingest plastic across both aquatic and terrestrial environments (including us!), our findings have major implications.
#WomenInSTEM #seabirds #PlasticPollution #SubLethalEffects #Microplastics #Nanoplastics #silicosis

#silicosis alert: Cases of deadly lung disease in Australian tradies rising as unions call for regulatory action https://7news.com.au/news/public-health/silicosis-alert-cases-of-deadly-lung-disease-in-australian-tradies-rising-as-unions-call-for-regulatory-action-c-9820331

Perlite in our clothes is like thousands of needles constantly poking into our skin. #laundering doesn't help. Repeated exposure can likely cause #silicosis which we suspect Tara may already have from another event years ago. The particles have a trait similar to static electricity where they stick to EVERYTHING and spread like a bomb went off.

Excellent work by #KPCC #LAist reporter Leslie Berestein-Rojas in partnership with Public Health Watch and Univision.

Workers -- mainly young Latino immigrants -- who cut synthetic slabs for countertops are inhaling tiny crystalline silica particles that can kill workers them. They're being diagnosed with incurable #silicosis.

Read the story and listen to the embedded audio:

https://laist.com/health/news/ancient-lung-disease-strikes-countertop-cutters-in-la#x

RT @yamunajiye
Friends in cities...I challenge you to See this without suffering from a deep guilt complex...
#silicosis
Hats off @hridayeshjoshi
https://youtu.be/Cus0IXlSfvI

RT @shaibaba
#Silicosis is a deadly lung disease. In this powerful documentary film, @hridayeshjoshi exposes the cause, the effect and the general apathy towards a disease that is debilitating thousands of workers in India. https://twitter.com/hridayeshjoshi/status/1596645276500250625

#MastodonIndia this is in Hindi. A #newslaundry production on #silicosis. Persuasive conscience raising. youtube.com/watch?v=Cus0IX…

#MastodonIndia this is in Hindi. A #newslaundry production on #silicosis. Persuasive conscience raising. youtube.com/watch?v=Cus0IX…

Momentous day today.

#silicosis

My Dad suffered terribly from #asbestosis (not silicosis) in his final years, more than 40 years after he ceased installing telephone PABX systems in asbestos-riddled office buildings & factories. It took decades for the symptoms to appear, and they were debilitating.

I used to help him shop every week & it would take him about an hour to walk the ~200 metres from Coles at Warringah Mall to the bus interchange, as he would have to stop every 10 or 15 metres & rest for a few minutes to catch his breath. If #silicosis is anything like asbestosis, Australia needs to ban the use of artificial stone (mainly used for kitchen benchtops) ASAP.

"For the last 60 years, silicosis was very rare in Australia. Due to the increased use of artificial stone, we are now seeing a re-emergence of this terrible disease."

Banning artificial stone could prevent 100 lung cancers and 1,000 cases of silicosis, where dust scars the lungs https://theconversation.com/banning-artificial-stone-could-prevent-100-lung-cancers-and-1-000-cases-of-silicosis-where-dust-scars-the-lungs-182420