What's really striking is it is affecting young people, in their 20s and 30s, and there's no treatment for it. If they didn't do their job, they wouldn't have a disease, and it should be preventable. So, we need urgent action.
And stonemasons who cut this material could be breathing in high concentrations of silica dust, which could potentially lead to them developing a potentially fatal lung condition called silicosis.
Experts have documented the first eight cases in the UK in a new paper. I think there needs to be an urgent focus on this disease.
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