Respuesta corta: Unfortunately, yes.

Asbestos-related diseases have what scientists call a ‘dose response’, meaning the more asbestos you are exposed to, the higher your risk for asbestos health problems.  

But health researchers (including the National Cancer Institute) also all state that there is no hay nivel seguro of asbestos exposure. In addition, the American Lung Association notes that once you inhale them, some asbestos fibers never leave.

Asbestos diseases can take 20-50 years to appear, but once the fibers are inside you, the damage begins, and over a long period of time, even a small amount of exposure can be harmful.

Many people were exposed to asbestos-covered work clothes by a parent or spouse who worked around asbestos. Before the mid-1980s, workers were rarely given sufficient protection and methods to remove all the asbestos they were exposed to. Sometimes they had no protection at all. Spouses and others who washed the work clothes or spent time around theenm in enclosed spaces – like laundry rooms and garages – may have been exposed to asbestos.

That’s why if you may have been exposed to asbestos – on the job, or exposed second-hand by a spouse, parent or household member, it’s a good idea to speak to your healthcare provider to discuss screening and diagnosing asbestos lung-scarring and asbestos diseases.

A simple lung x-ray could save your life. 










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Si es posible que haya estado expuesto al asbesto, hable con su proveedor de atención médica sobre pruebas y exámenes para ayudar a detectar la presencia de fibras de enfermedades relacionadas con el asbesto.






















The reason asbestos is banned in 69 countries









Historically, asbestos was the most sought-after mineral by a variety of industries for the very many excellent properties of anti-corrosiveness, high tensile strength, wear and friction characteristics, flexibility, heat stability, thermal, electrical and acoustic insulation, absorption capacity, and resistance to chemical, biological, and thermal degradation. 





During the 1900s, using its unique properties, asbestos was used to make over 3,000 products known as asbestos containing materials (ACM). Unfortunately, various countries undertook a variety of research to examine if asbestos was causing health problems for people exposed to asbestos and they found it did contribute to causing health problems. 





Health research showing the dangers of any asbestos exposure





El National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) has said that based on extensive epidemiological research on asbestos, there are well-established associations between asbestos exposure, lung cancer, and mesotelioma. However, it says that the epidemiological evidence for other cancer sites is less extensive than it is for lung cancer and mesothelioma, but is still considerable for some.





Based on these revelations and to protect people from asbestos exposure and prevent asbestos-related diseases (asbestos-related disease), international Conventions and codes of practice aim to help countries regulate the use of asbestos and asbestos-containing products. 





A public health problem: global regulation and bans on asbestos 





Adopting the international Conventions means the high degree of consensus that has been reached among Member States of organizations, such as the UN and WHO. It is up to the individual Member States to decide whether or not they can ratify a Convention. Once a country ratifies an international Convention, it should then implement corresponding laws to ensure consistency with that Convention.





As of October 28, 2022, 69 countries have banned the use of asbestos in their countries.





Banning asbestos definitely is a step in the right direction to prevent exposure to asbestos and minimize asbestos-related diseases.





















No Safe Level of Asbestos Exposure









Según losInstituto Nacional del Cáncer, there is no safe level of asbestos exposure. It is highly likely that almost all people are exposed to asbestos sometime or the other during their lifetime. This is because asbestos mineral is made up of a large number of asbestos fibers, which are microscopic, meaning they are not visible to the naked eye. 





Further, some form of asbestos is also friable, which indicates that asbestos can be crumbled or crushed into dust. These asbestos fibers and dust easily float in the air and become the source of asbestos exposure for people.





Professor Seaton at the University of Aberdeen conducted post-mortem studies to find that 60% of people in the UK had asbestos fibers in their lungs at the time of death. The professor also found that 100% of people from large cities in the UK had asbestos fibers in their lungs at death and the cause of deaths was not asbestos exposure.





Thus, it is clear that no one can really escape being exposed to asbestos entirely.





Primary Asbestos Exposure / Second-Hand Asbestos Exposure





Asbestos exposure is of two types – primary exposure or direct asbestos exposure y secondary exposure or second-hand asbestos exposure. Primary exposure refers to people exposed to asbestos in their workplace predominantly. These people are the ones working in asbestos mines, working in downstream activities of transportation and the related activities of loading and unloading. 





Similarly, the people who receive the asbestos and redistribute them are also subject to primary exposure. Further, people who handle asbestos when making ACM products are also those who suffer the consequences of primary exposure. 





The family’s exposure to asbestos from industrial work clothes





These people who are subject to primary exposure become the source of secondary exposure to people who come into contact with them. Obviously, the family members of such people belong to this category as are other people within the social circle of the ones exposed to asbestos primarily.





The homes of people with primary exposure to asbestos become a source of secondary asbestos exposure in the form of clothing and footwear worn by the primarily exposed worker, which may contain asbestos fibers and dust that can be released into the air. Even the worker’s vehicle could also be contaminated with asbestos fibers and dust. 





Hay evidence to show that a person who launders the worker’s clothes frequently is more at risk than others. 













       
        
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Asbesto y Salud









Asbestos is fibrous and friable and these characteristics are the ones that are responsible for many of the problemas de salud to people who are either exposed primarily or secondarily. 





Asbestos when used in ACM products does not pose any problems as long as the products are in good condition. However, when these ACM products are damaged and the asbestos from the ACM products gets released into the air, it poses a risk to people who either inhale them or even swallow them to cause asbestos-related diseases. 





Asbestos fibers are microscopic, and have no taste or smell. You may not know when you’re breathing them.





When people inhale or swallow asbestos fibers or dust, they do so without their knowledge because these fibers and dust are microscopic. These asbestos fibers and dust get trapped in the lungs and stay there for a long time. This causes scarring and inflammation leading to asbestos-related diseases, including mesothelioma, a deadly form of cancer and asbestosis, a non-cancerous asbestos-related disease.





Although it is said that everyone could suffer from primary or secondary exposure to asbestos, it does not mean that everyone will get enfermedades relacionadas con el asbesto. However, people who are more exposed than others or repeatedly exposed are at higher risk of acquiring asbestos-related diseases due to a phenomenon known as the dose-response phenomenon. Similarly, people who smoke and have some exposure to asbestos run a far higher risk of acquiring asbestos-related diseases as are people with comorbidities. 





The latency of asbestos damage: people exposed as children can develop asbestos disease later in life





Another facet of asbestos exposure is the one of latency phenomenon. asbestos-related diseases arrive without showing any symptoms. They also manifest quite late in life. There have been cases of asbestos-related diseases that have appeared as late as 50 years after exposure, by which time it is quite late for medical intervention.





















Can Minor Occasional second-hand Asbestos Exposure be Dangerous?









Short-term asbestos exposure generally refers to either a brief, one-time asbestos exposure or multiple exposure incidents occurring over a few days.





From the foregoing, it is clear that any form of asbestos exposure is dangerous, even an occasional second-hand asbestos exposure.





However, constant exposure to second-hand asbestos or short-term direct exposure to a cloud of asbestos fibers and dust that accompany natural disasters likehurricanes and earthquakes or manmade disasters like the 9/11 event is definitely riskier than an occasional second-hand asbestos exposure.





Children staying with a parent who is a primary asbestos worker may be routinely exposed (second-hand). 





If this child’s friend comes occasionally to this house, the friend could qualify to be exposed to second-hand asbestos exposure. Between the child and the friend, the child would face more risk of acquiring an asbestos-related disease than the friend does. 





According to an estimate by EWG Action Fund/Asbestos Nation, from 1999 to 2017 an estimated 236,981 to 277,654 Americans died from asbestos exposure. Roughly, 12,000 to 15,000 Americans die every year from asbestos-related diseases even now. 





When you juxtapose these estimates with Professor Seaton’s averment on presence of asbestos fibers in everyone’s lungs, it can be reasonably assumed that an occasional exposure to second-hand asbestos poses the lowest risk of acquiring asbestos-related diseases. 





















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Para Justinian C. Lane, obtener una indemnización por las víctimas del asbesto es algo personal.





Los abuelos de Justiniano y su padre trabajaron con asbesto en su juventud y murieron de cánceres relacionados con el asbesto en sus últimos años.  





En el momento de cada una de sus muertes, nadie en la familia de Justiniano sabía que eran elegibles para presentar una demanda por asbesto y buscar una compensación de los fideicomisos de asbesto.





Debido a que nadie en la familia de Justiniano conocía sus opciones, nunca recibieron compensación alguna por la muerte de sus seres queridos. 





Si cree que su lesión o la de su familiar estuvo relacionada con la exposición al asbesto, podría tener derecho a una compensación significativa.





Este es dinero que podría usar para cubrir los costos de los servicios de remoción de asbesto, pagar el tratamiento médico y proteger de manera preventiva su bienestar físico. 





También hay fideicomisos de asbesto que ofrecen compensación mucho más rápida y fácilmente (sin presentar una demanda).





Si desea ayuda para presentar un reclamo, ponerse en contacto por correo electrónico a [email protected] 	o llámenos o envíenos un mensaje de texto al (833) 4-ASBESTOS (427-2378) o (206) 455-9190. Escucharemos su historia y le explicaremos sus opciones. Y nunca cobramos por nada a menos que reciba dinero en su bolsillo.





Además de demandas legales, discapacidad de veteranos, seguridad social y protección del empleo como compensación de trabajadores, FELA y La ley de Jones para los trabajadores marítimos, hay fideicomisos de asbesto que se han establecido para indemnizar a los perjudicados por el asbesto sin tener que presentar una demanda.





No hay riesgo ni costo para hablar con uno de nuestro personal sobre su litigio de asbesto. No hay cargos a menos que reciba dinero.





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