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Black Lung Disease At Its Highest In 50 Years, This West Virginia Morning

Federal health researchers at the CDC have a new report about black lung disease among the most experienced coal miners in Appalachia. They are suffering from the incurable disease at the highest rates in nearly half a century.

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Appalachia's Black Lung Rates Highest In Nearly 50 Years As Miners' Protections Stall

Rates are now as bad as the 1970s, with thousands of miners sick and dying. Mining experts blame toxic silica dust, now more common in mines.

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Writer’s Memoir Explores Complicated Relationship With Appalachia, This West Virginia Morning

Writer Emilee Hackney has a complicated relationship with where she grew up. She loved her friends, family, the swimming holes and wild places in Tazewell County, Virginia, but she felt stifled. Her new memoir, All That’s Unseen: An Appalachian Memoir, explores this tension and what happened when she did leave.

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W.Va. Confirms Measles Case In Barbour County

For the first time in more than two years, a case of measles has been confirmed in West Virginia.

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