VOLCANO DUST IS DEADLY Express UK
Doctors advised those with breathing problems to keep their medication with them at all times as the dust storm showed no sign of abating.
The World Health Organisation said the microscopic ash was potentially dangerous when inhaled and suggested everyone should stay in or consider wearing a mask.
“We’re very concerned about it,” said spokesman Daniel Epstein. “These particles can reach the peripheral regions of the lungs and cause problems, especially for people with asthma.
“Any matter that is deposited and breathed into the lungs is dangerous to people. It depends on how the particles are suspended in the cloud and their density. We don’t know that yet.”
The Met Office said it had detected ash deposits from Lerwick in Scotland to Exeter in South-west England. “The greatest concentrations are in the North Sea and the east
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