And that is an unacceptable way to die. Thus, Cochran and the widows need other dust-exposed, sarcoid patients to come forward. The silence of the PHS and the Surgeon General was ended when the known death toll reached about 300. Also, the widows could use the help of the Tuskegee survivors who can speak powerfully about the dangers of silence if anyone knows these families. It is difficult to prevent and treat sarcoid-like disease when the US government refuses to contact and evaluate its own workers after it has learned that thousands have unnecessary, environmental lung disease.
Silence can be deadly.
Hopefully, the letters from the black sarcoid widows will move Dave Satcher to action. He is the Surgeon General. That is his job. Any page on WSS can be translated. Just get the URL of the page you want, return to this page and paste it in the window.