<p>Since the conflicts that followed 9/11 in 2001, military veterans deployed to areas in Southwest Asia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Horn of Africa have been developing respiratory diseases caused by inhaling particulate matter linked to their deployment locations and job duties. New research published in the <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10815659/" target=" blank"><em>International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health</em></a> shows levels of silica and other silicates are significantly higher in the lungs of those who have had past deployments compared to normal lung tissue.</p>
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The grinding and sanding of synthetic engineered stone exposes workers to high levels of lung-scarring silica. Experts say the health risk should have been clear long before workers began falling ill.