According to italian newspaper Terra, Asbestos continues to kill in Italy. The current toll is 800 victims each year only in Lombardy (the northern region where Milan is) and is expected to rise, since this substance continues to be present in some areas and acts very slowly. A chilling detail of this story is that future death will also happen among people for whom current law doesn’t provide any compensation. As the Terra article puts it “the new law gives the right to claim for compensation to people who were exposed to asbestos in their work. Consequently, it excludes from access to compensation funds all the citizens who got sicks because they met asbestos in their daily life and domestic environment.// Including, for example, the wives that for many years washed at home the working suits contaminated by asbestos of their husbands working in some factory.