NEW YORK – A man who died last year of lung disease was added Friday to the official list of victims of the Sept. 11 attacks.
New York City's medical examiner ruled that 63-year-old Jerry Borg, of Manhattan, who died in December, was killed by complications caused by a lung condition he got from inhaling dust from the collapse of the World Trade Center.
Borg suffered from pulmonary sarcoidosis, a disease in which inflamed cells can make someone's lungs stiff and interfere with normal breathing.
The death brings the official count of World Trade Center attack victims to 2,753.
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