Asbestos risk in Australia similar to in crisis-hit Britain

By Emma Macdonald
Updated April 23 2018 - 9:35pm, first published November 14 2014 - 9:31am

The United Kingdom is in the grips of an asbestos epidemic with the latest projections showing one in 170 of all British men born in the 1940s will die of mesothelioma.

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