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People who worked at ground zero helping clean up the disaster have developed asthma at a rate that is 12 times the normal rite or adults. If you were a working on the day of september 11th when the smoke and dust was at its thickest and most toxic, you were at the highest risk of developing a respiratory disease after. Also during the early stages of the clean up, dust masks and oxygen tanks were used sparingly because they did not have nearly enough for everyone. Workers actually went to construction stores before and bought cheap dust masks because they wanted something to protect them from the toxins. Out of a survey of 26,000 nearly 926 people reported cases of asthma, which is 3.6 percent more than found in normal adults in a group this size. the World Trade Center Health Registry is working on getting more information on the effects September 11th had on the workers and will soon be collecting more data.