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    NPR Continues To Find Hundreds Of Cases Of Advanced Black Lung

    by Howard Berkes Jul 01, 2017 2 minutes
    A display case at NIOSH shows a normal lung and a diseased black lung from inhaling coal dust and other harmful particles while coal mining.

    NPR's ongoing investigation of the advanced stage of the fatal lung disease that afflicts coal miners has identified an additional 1,000 cases in Appalachia.

    That brings the NPR count of Progressive Massive Fibrosis (PMF), the most serious stage of the disease known as black lung, to nearly 2,000 cases in the region, all of which were diagnosed since 2010.

    In the same years, researchers at the National Institute for

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