Indonesia's asbestos 'time bomb'

[Article] The symptoms were mild and seemingly innocuous at first: mostly coughing and fatigue. But it wasn't long before Sriyono got a grim diagnosis -- he had asbestosis -- an incurable scarring of the lungs that often leads to cancer. It was caused by decades of inhaling asbestos fibres at the factory where the 44-year-old still works outside the sprawling capital Jakarta. A voiced AFPTV report

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In good spirits - yet very ill.This father of three - living in the outskirts of Indonesia's capital - has an incurable disease that is likely to develop into cancer.Sriyono, asbestos victim:"At first it was just like a light cough and although the breathing was normal, I got easily tired. Then when...
This article was published Friday, 23 November, 2018 by AFP (238 words)
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