Black Lung Rates Rise Among Veteran Appalachian Coal Miners
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This episode features a replay of interviews with miners discussing the impact of black lung disease on their lives.
As many as one in three longtime miners in Appalachia have tested positive for black lung disease, according to new federal research. On this episode of The FRONTLINE Dispatch , a replay of reporter Howard Berkes' 2019 interviews with several miners experiencing varying stages of black lung disease about how it has irrevocably changed their lives.
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