Cathy Tinney-Zara, a working worker from Niosh to Pittsburg who spoke with Wired in his capacity as union representative, says that before losing their jobs, researchers from Morgantown had actively studied the way in which the Gulf War soldiers were affected by mustard gas exposure, how pregnant workers were affected by the Gulf War. PFAS chemicalsAnd how the manufacturing workers contract pulmonary fibrosis after inhaling nanoparticles.
Two researchers from Morgantown – who like others in this story, have asked to remain anonymous to avoid professional repercussions – according to their licensed colleagues, also sought how agricultural workers are affected by inhaling the dust of hemp plants, and a possible link between exposure to chemical disinfectants and asthma. The laboratory was also about to start developing a quick toxicity test for chemicals to which American troops can be exposed during their trip.
Mandler says that he was looking for why some people who make, cut and install stone counters began to obtain silicosis – a potential for pulmonary scars and inflammation that makes him difficult to breathe – after just a few years at work. Generally, he says, workers tend to get the disease after spending decades in the field.
“I listened to younger men than I sitting on the other side of the table and talking about how they feel like they are drowning in their own lungs because of these exhibitions, and they cannot see their children grow up,” explains Mandler.
He adds that some Niosh staff who lost their jobs tested how the pulmonary tissue reacts after being exposed to dust of different trademarks of commercial synthetic quartz. It is believed that the material, commonly used in counters, causes pulmonary damage more serious than exposure to pure natural quartz, says Mandler. He believes that something in the manufacturing process can be blamed, but now that his Niosh research team has been dismantled, Mandler fears that he will no longer take time to the scientific community to find the deep cause.
Three researchers from Morgantown who have been affected by job cuts tell Wired that they have received no information on who would be in charge of the organic samples of the establishment after reducing the force, how the guard could be transferred, or to the ultimate fate. Since niosh's entire divisions have been eliminated, said a researcher, they do not even know who could take responsibility for the samples they supervised in the establishment.
Another researcher says that when the layoffs occurred, the only instruction they received was “to destroy our purchasing and travel cards, and the maintenance was available to help us take personal items in our cars”.
The researcher says that CDC guidelines orders employees to keep physical samples and support information personally under rental and key, and only certain authorized staff are authorized to access them. “My colleagues and I took this responsibility very seriously,” the researcher told Wired. “Many are worried about samples and what will become, sensitive and otherwise.”
Even before the recent reduction in force, Mandler and two other researchers have been dismissed say that a Federal freeness of expenses The administration by the Trump administration in January had reduced the supply of the installation of Morgantown in liquid nitrogen to “critical” levels. It took several weeks to restart expeditions.
