With a recent report showing that almost 70 percent of World Trade Center first responders have had lung problems, there's new concern for people who lived in the area. Scientists have developed a new computer model to determine who's been most affected by the smoke and ash.
Health officials still don't know the full impact to communities surrounding the World Trade Center, since the few air monitors in New York responsible for testing air quality became clogged during the time or lost power. "There was a very limited amount of monitoring data, and you wouldn't expect much more," says Paul Lioy, an environmental health scientist at the Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences Institute, part of Rutgers and the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey–Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
Now, researchers have developed a computer simulation of the plume of smoke and airborne dust from the collapse and continued ...
