To report the number of malignant pleural and peritoneal mesotheliomas that have occurred in former Wittenoom crocidolite workers to the end of 2008, to compare this with earlier predictions, and to ...

IT boasts one of the most picturesque places in the country but beneath the rugged bushland and red dirt lies a danger that has claimed more than 2000 lives. The small country town which lies around ...

Picture this: a place so dangerous that the government literally erased it from existence. In June 2007, Wittenoom was officially degazetted and removed, its name scraped off road signs as if ...

(Medical Xpress)—"Wittenoom kids" who spent their childhoods exposed to asbestos in the north-west of Western Australia are now developing a range of cancers or dying at a rate well above the average ...

Deep in the remote Pilbara region of Western Australia, the town of Wittenoom lies empty, desolate … and contaminated. Wittenoom is on Banjima country. It was officially established in 1947 as a ...

WA's indigenous population has the highest rate of mesothelioma deaths in the world, with more than two-thirds of cases caused by asbestos mining in Wittenoom, researchers say. Mesothelioma is one of ...

A researcher who has studied the environmental impact of Wittenoom's blue asbestos mine, in Western Australia's north-west, says the chances of people living in the town contracting an ...

WITTENOOM, Australia (Reuters) - Of the 20,000 people who once lived in this outback mining town in western Australia, at least 1,000 are dead of asbestos-related diseases. Just about everyone else ...

This place is such a dangerous health hazard that it was officially delisted as a town in 2006. But that hasn't stopped tourists from wanting to visit.

Residents in Wittenoom in Western Australia's north-west are outraged they have had no correspondence from the State Government since it announced it would cut electricity to the town from this July.