Asbestosis Claims and evidence of the death knell effect of asbestos on people who breathe its fibers is likely to increase in the future with more and more cases coming to the fore.
Asbestos, once hailed as the best and reliable building material available to the construction industries. The properties of being fire resistant, tensile strength, durability, flexibility and heat insulation made it popular since these properties meant that it could save lives and strengthen buildings. The evidence of the first use of asbestos was about 2000 years ago by the Greeks who firmly believed that its fire withstanding properties were too good to let go in spite of the health hazards it posed. The Greeks, in those times knew that asbestos caused health problems.
These health hazards were long forgotten until the turn of the 20th century. The medical research community observed too many unnatural and mistimed deaths in asbestos mining towns in the USA during the beginning of the First World War.