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Joe Duggan

May 25, 2026

3:42
Can I check? This, this is workers in the UK?
3:45
So how we started to get involved in the story was my friend asked me, "What's the situation here?" And I, I didn't really know where to start, so I just l- looked up all the, the top respiratory consultants in the UK who deal with occupational lung disease and just started ringing them up to, to find out have...
4:05
are there any cases of silicosis here from quartz? And eventually, that led me to Dr.
4:10
Jo Feary, who's a doctor at the Royal Brompton Hospital, who is the main doctor looking after the UK's first quartz silicosis patient.
4:18
So she told me in January 2024, "Yes, we have started to see the first cases.
4:24
They've developed in the last few months." Coincidentally, about a week after she told me that, there was a debate in the House of Lords about this raised by a Green Party peer called Baroness Bennett, who's Australian, and she knew about the ban that had just come in in Australia, and again, wanted to know from the government what's the situation here.
4:43
And then government minister said in that debate, "There are no cases." But we, we knew that wasn't true, it wasn't correct.
9:00
Can you, can you tell me about Marek?

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