rder of years, but sometimes it goes undiagnosed,' said Dr. Ronald G. Crystal, chief of the division of pulmonary and critical care medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell hospital. 'Then the conditions are recognized, and people die in a few months.'

Dr. Crystal said that some people are more genetically predisposed to sarcoidosis than others, but it remains a relatively rare disease and not one that should concern people who were briefly exposed to the dust.

'If there is going to be a significant increase in sarcoidosis connected with this type of exposure, it would have appeared by now,' Dr. Crystal said.


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