Health & Medical Allergies & Asthma

Severe Dust Storms Are Very Bad For Your Health

Most people do not realize that unhealthy air comes in many forms.
Severe dust storms that are known to certain regions of our nation, have much higher rates of respiratory diseases and lung cancer.
In Arizona, there are giant dust storms that come each year.
The dust storm Monsoons can be 500 to 1200 feet high and a wall of dust and stormy rain right behind that, it is insane, and it truly looks like something out of hell.
Not long ago, we noted our troops in Iraq pinned down by dust storms so fierce nothing was moving, good guys, or bad guys.
Dust particles from China have been found floating in the air in New Jersey and some of these storms send airborne dusty particles around the world.
Speaking of China, the Gobi desert may one day reclaim Beijing, yes, cover it over.
Recently, an acquaintance alerted me to the fact that; "The Japanese Americans interned at Manzanar died at a far higher rate than other internees.
The statistic I read was there was a 10% death rate, which may have been caused by the prevalence of dust all over from the time they woke up and had to wipe their faces to bed time.
" The issues with dust and deaths in the Japanese Intern camps is sad, but does not surprise me, there are many places in the US that are really dangerous.
For instance, when Mono Lake dried up, due to Los Angeles taking all the water, what was left was very concentrated pollutants, mixed in the silt.
Then when the wind blows, the dust storms that kill people by way of lung cancer, the percentages are of lung cancer are horrible.
Please be careful in dust storms.


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