Mesothelioma and Asbestos

For decades during the Chilly War era, the U.S. Navy as well as U.S. Air Force maintained U.S. owned as well as operated soldierlike bases in the Philippines. In the 1990s, the United States closed these bases as well as gave them to the Philippine government. Local environmentalists, government officials as well as citizens claim the US government west pollutants such as asbestos, fuel as well as heavy metals on the former bases that possess caused health problems for those exposed to them. Asbestos is a known carcinogen that can cause humorless respiratory illnesses similar mesothelioma as well as lung cancer.

Environmental surveys completed by the Philippines government possess verified large amounts of asbestos, fuels as well as heavy metals in at least three sites within the former Subic Bay Navy Base. Other sites possess confirmed pollutants from improperly disposed of sewage, oil as well as chemicals. Various attempts to possess the US government fund cleanup efforts in the area possess been unsuccessful.

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