Evidence for horrifying new disease linked to plastic consumption in Australia
It’s an all-pervasive pollutant devastating ecosystems, killing wildlife and which has even been found in human breast milk. Now ominous new studies have found modern society’s addiction to plastic could also be fuelling a terrifying new fibrotic disease linked to cancer, called “plasticosis”. Researchers made the links in a new report analysing NSW marine birds which had died with macro plastics (larger fragments) and microplastics inside them. For more Health & Wellbeing related news and videos check out Health & Wellbeing >> It found the birds had developed fibrosis – the thickening and scarring of tissue – infiltrating the inner lining of their organs and destroying their glands. Fibrotic diseases are not uncommon in the human body - asbestosis and silicosis are both fibrosis of the lungs from breathing in asbestos and silica - and the report’s findings suggest this new inflammatory disease discovered in sea birds could have similarly devastating ramifications on a h...