New doubts endanger 9/11 health bill10/25/2007, 4:00 a.m. EDT
By DEVLIN BARRETT
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — New doubts about what killed a
New York City police officer who worked in the ruins of
the World Trade Center now threaten the yearslong
effort to create a treatment program for other ailing
Sept. 11 workers.
Detective James Zadroga became a symbol for that
effort last year, when a New Jersey autopsy concluded
that he died at age 34 as a result of toxic dust in
his lungs from working at the site of the 9/11 terror
attacks.
-snip-Zadroga's story has just taken a stunning plot twist.
The decorated detective worked 450 hours on the
smoking pile. Yet the New York City Medical Examiner,
Charles Hirsch, concluded last week that the foreign
matter found in Zadroga's lungs definitely — according
to him — did not come from dust.
-snip-Though neither the medical examiner nor the Zadroga
family spelled out the details of the new findings, the
conclusion that Zadroga did not die from dust at the
disaster site will mean extra headaches for lawmakers
trying to get the federal government to pay billions of
dollars for decades of treatment.
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