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Environmental and Occupational Diseases

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Environmental diseases are caused by exposure to something in a person's environment, as opposed to diseases that are caused by genetic or immunological deficiencies. Occupational diseases result from job-related exposures, such as dust or chemical substances, and they are typically non-infectious.

About Environmental and Occupational Diseases

Asbestos Related Lung Disease
Beryllium Sensitization and Disease
Black Lung Disease/Coal Workers’ Pneumoconiosis
Bronchiolitis Obliterans
Flavor Related Lung Disease
Granulomatous Lung Diseases
Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis
Latex Allergy

Occupational Allergic Disease
Occupational Asthma
Occupational Dermatitis
Occupational Related Lung Disease
Other Pneumoconioses (diseases caused by inhaling dust)
Sarcoidosis

Our Environmental and Occupational Diseases Program

Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Program

 

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