Rescuers suffering from ‘WTC Syndrome'

Rescue workers in New York are suffering from an illness doctors have dubbed World Trade Centre Syndrome.

Symptoms include breathing difficulties, lung problems, sinus infections and severe asthma.

The ruins of the WTC where toxin levels reach 58 times the safe limit

Doctors say it is likely to have been caused by workers breathing in choking dust and toxic smoke from the Twin Towers collapse.

The New York Fire Department say 40 per cent of the 11,000 firefighters on duty at the time of the attacks and during recovery operations are suffering breathing difficulties.

Some toxin levels at Ground Zero are 58 times the danger limit and smoke is still coming from the wreckage.

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