They are lined with the inhaled red dust from which springs a slow, silent disease – silicosis. Silicosis is not new. It has lingered in India’s mines, quarries and stone-cutting factories in ...

The Sunday Herald Sun can reveal more than 500 Victorians workers have now been diagnosed with the incurable lung disease silicosis, with an “alarming” spike recorded just recently.

A growing number of these countertop workers are developing silicosis, a serious and long-term lung disease, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of ...