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Deaths: 5 ($36,000)
Heart Attacks: 8 ($820)
Asthma Attacks: 84 ($4)
Hospital Admissions: 3 ($83)
Chronic Bronchitis: 3 ($1,400)
Asthma ER Visits: 5 ($2)
SW: →Death and disease attributable to fine particle pollution from the Quindaro Power Station: - delete section
The table below estimates the death and illness attributable to the Quindaro Power Station. Abt assigned a value of $7,300,000 to each 2010 mortality, based on a range of government and private studies. Valuations of illnesses ranged from $52 for an asthma episode to $440,000 for a case of chronic bronchitis.<ref>[http://www.catf.us/resources/publications/files/Abt-Technical_Support_Document_for_the_Powerplant_Impact_Estimator_Software_Tool.pdf "Technical Support Document for the Powerplant Impact Estimator Software Tool,"] Prepared for the Clean Air Task Force by Abt Associates, July 2010</ref>
====Table 1: Death and disease attributable to fine particle pollution from the Quindaro Power Station====
