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Health complaints following an air disaster: a “second disaster”
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- Published on: 27 April 2016
- Published on: 27 April 2016Reactive Stress DiseaseShow More
I enjoyed reading the study of Huizink et al(1)about the Amsterdam air disaster. As pointed out in their table 2, airway disease was one of the symptoms found to be more prevalent in the exposed group. Reactive airway disease can develop after a single large exposure to an irritant. This type of injury has also been noted in the nasal airway. One of the reasons the reactivity persists for many years or never goes awa...
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