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Book Dust Hazardous to Your Health?
Chemical engineer says book dust can lead to allergies, asthma, lung cancer, heart attack, allergy, asthma, skin problem, depression, etc.
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3/5/2004
From: Library-Dust.com
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Hassan Bolourchi, a Chemical Engineer, Ph D. currently working as a scientist with Quark Advanced Adhesive in MI, has created a web site dedicated to informing librarians of the hazards of breathing book dust. According to Bolourchi, "Many librarians who work with dusty books suffer from different illnesses related to books dust. Some of these illnesses like allergy problems and asthma are well known and librarians are aware of them. This new study propose that, long time exposure to books dust can create many illnesses like lung cancer, heart attack, allergy, asthma, skin problem, depression, etc." Visit the site at http://www.library-dust.com
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Uladzimir Katkouski ,Prague |
en Yesterday, before going to bed I was browsing through an old pocket Czech-German dictionary which was published in 1882 in Prague (I bought it for less than two dollars in a used books store the other day). It's a bit wierd, but when I turned to pages, in the first moments on a next page I always got a tickle in the throat, I even coughed a bit. I guess that was the book dust. So when I coughed I suddenly thought if one can get some old contagious disease from this ancient book dust, pox or something?
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