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New York TimesRejecting ’06 Finding, Report Says Detective Didn’t Die From 9/11 DustBy ROBERT D. McFADDEN
Published: October 19, 2007
New York City’s chief medical examiner has concluded
that the death of a city police detective who worked
hundreds of hours on the smoldering debris pile at
ground zero after the Sept. 11 attacks was not caused
by exposure to toxic dust there.
Contradicting a New Jersey pathologist who had found
the death “directly related” to ground zero dust, the
medical examiner, Dr. Charles S. Hirsch, acknowledged
that “foreign material” had been found in the lungs
of the detective, James Zadroga, but insisted that it
had not come from the trade center site.
In a letter to the detective’s father, Joseph Zadroga,
of Little Egg Harbor, N.J., Dr. Hirsch did not cite a
cause of death. But he said his review of medical
records, the earlier autopsy report and slides of the
victim’s lung tissue — all provided by the detective’s
family — had found no link to the trade center.
-snip-Representative Carolyn B. Maloney, of Manhattan and
Queens, said in a statement that if Dr. Hirsch was
certain that the material in the detective’s lungs was
not caused by trade center dust “then it’s incumbent
upon the M.E. to tell Mr. Zadroga’s family where he
thinks it did come from, and why he thinks that Mr.
Zadroga’s W.T.C. exposures did not contribute to his
death.”
-snip-Read more:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/19/nyregion/19autopsy.html
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