LISTEN NOW: Curtin Radio's Jenny Seaton spoke to CEO Melita Markey about ADSA's Wittenoom Community Education Campaign.
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The Asbestos Diseases Society of Australia has launched a community education campaign to discourage visitors to the closed mining town of Wittenoom (Pilbara region of WA). On 9 September, ADSA CEO Melita Markey spoke to Curtin Radio's Jenny Seaton (on The Afternoon Show) about the importance of informing people of the risk, the need to clean up the area, and ASDA's petition for permanent memorials to those who have died as a result of asbestos exposure. As the time between initial exposure and the onset of symptoms is usually 20 to 50 years, ADSA will also be allocating space on the memorials for the hundreds, even thousands, of victims that have yet to be diagnosed.