TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS

Sunday, January 08, 2006

NYPD is still refusing full and open acknowledgement of health problems in folks onsite at 9/11. Full investigation would probably reveal exotic diseases tied to exotic weaponry.

New York Daily News January 7, 2006:

"A retired NYPD detective, who worked more than 450 hours at Ground Zero, died Thursday from brain and respiratory complications that his family insists were linked to the World Trade Center cleanup.

While autopsy results are pending, union officials maintain James Zadroga's death is the first post-9/11 death of a city officer linked to hazardous material from Ground Zero.

"Our detective is a hero," said Mike Palladino, president of the Detectives' Endowment Association. "He had a disregard for his own health and life and tried to save others."

In a chilling letter Zadroga wrote about a year after the terror attacks, he described his deteriorating health - including a constant cough and sore throat.

"No one cares at the job," he wrote. "They tell me I'm fine, go back to work. But, truthfully, I haven't felt this bad in my life.... And what thanks do I get now that I'm sick?"

NYPD officials said Zadroga, 34, was given a tax-free disability pension of three-quarters pay in 2004. His pension was the result of a pulmonary disease related to 9/11, a police official said.[...]

Still, Zadroga's parents said he left behind $50,000 in medical bills. They also said neither the city nor the NYPD has ever acknowledged to them that their son's illness was tied to Ground Zero.

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Zadroga was inside 7 World Trade Center as it began to collapse on 9/11. He returned to the site for weeks to help search for victims' remains.[...]

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Comments:
I'm surprised there aren't more reports of this. I recall, in the wake of 9/11, seeing a report of a Wall Street Journal employee supposedly getting really sick and dying from exposure to WTC debris. Never saw any more on that.


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posted by  Anonymous : 8/1/06 15:11

 

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