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Dutch Study Reveals Disturbing Discover: Children Living Near Major Airports Suffer Substantially More Respiratory Symptoms

15 Jul 2024 | Abstracted from The Cool Down

"Dutch researchers installed air pollution equipment in three different grade schools, each less than a mile from the airport border... days with higher aviation-related ultrafine particles (UFPs) resulted in more respiratory distress. Symptoms included coughing, wheezing, and phlegm..Each cubic centimeter of air breathed near a large airport contains tens of thousands of UFPs...The National Cancer Institute has linked UFP to lung cancer."

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