A recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has come to some rather alarming conclusions. The report was based on a study of deaths in the United States from mesothelioma (a type of a fatal cancer uniquely caused by exposure to asbestos) for the years 1999 to 2015. They cut the study off at 2015 because there is no data presently available after that year.
The CDC conclusions include:
- During the 1999 to 2015 time period there were a total of 45,221mesothelioma deaths reported in the United States.