Doctor narrows definition of 9-11 death
Boston GlobePosted: December 3rd, 2007 by Steve Trinward
“Police Officer James Godbee began directing traffic just outside the World Trade Center site two days after Sept. 11, 2001, working hundreds of hours before developing a cough. He died in 2004 of sarcoidosis, a disease that studies have linked to inhalation of toxic dust that hung over the towers’ ruins for months. But because he was not at the trade center when the towers collapsed, the city medical examiner has declined to add him to the official Sept. 11 victims’ list.With government officials, scientists and courts in a continuing debate over which deaths can be linked to the trade center dust, Chief Medical Examiner Charles Hirsch has so far drawn the most narrow definition as he considers requests to reclassify several respiratory deaths as homicides.” (12/02/07)
