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Occupational lung diseases

Many people spend a great deal of their lives at work. If your workplace exposes you to dust, chemicals or other things that can irritate your lungs, you may develop an occupational lung disease.

Find out more about these work-related lung diseases:

• Work-related asthma, including occupational asthma and work-exacerbated asthma
• asbestosis
• asthma
• lung cancer
• farmer's lung
• hantavirus
• legionnaires' disease and pontiac fever
• tuberculosis

Find out more about air quality and pollution at work

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Last updated on August 10, 2010