{"id":9499,"date":"2018-02-07T07:23:11","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T12:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9499"},"modified":"2018-02-07T07:23:11","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T12:23:11","slug":"black-lung-study-finds-biggest-cluster-ever-of-fatal-coal-miners-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9499","title":{"rendered":"Black Lung Study Finds Biggest Cluster Ever Of Fatal Coal Miners&#8217; Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Howard Berkes and Adelina Lancianese for NPR)<\/p>\n<p>Epidemiologists at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health say they&#8217;ve identified the largest cluster of advanced black lung disease ever reported, a cluster that was first\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/12\/15\/505577680\/advanced-black-lung-cases-surge-in-appalachia\">uncovered by NPR<\/a>\u00a014 months ago. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/02\/06\/583456129\/black-lung-study-biggest-cluster-ever-of-fatal-coal-miners-disease?utm_campaign=KHN:%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=60510837&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_s3kahjza8mnEKlqj31Xb9vS45kqxfq7hjank2zuYuBSl6WRUNiAAYzxDsdRSb1ZZkhluCJHLYpktsI_xjU3wzN-pQZA&amp;_hsmi=60510837\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3902\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Howard Berkes and Adelina Lancianese for NPR) Epidemiologists at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health say they&#8217;ve<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9500,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9499\/revisions\/9500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}