<unk>  is an occupational lung disease caused by inhalation of cotton or jute dust in inadequately ventilated working environments and can develop over time with repeated exposure.<unk>  commonly occurs in textile workers who are employed in yarn and fabric manufacture industries. It is now thought that the cotton dust directly causes the disease and some believe that the causative agents are endotoxins that come from the cell walls of gram-negative bacteria that grow on the cotton. Although bacterial endotoxin is a likely cause, the absence of similar symptoms in workers in other industries exposed to endotoxins makes this uncertain. Current smokers are also at risk for developing<unk>  or having complications relating to<unk> . Of the 81<unk> -related fatalities reported in the United States between 1990 and 1999, 48% included an occupation in the yarn, thread, and fabric industry on the victim's death certificate. This disease often occurred in the times of the Industrial Revolution. Most commonly young girls working in mills or other textile factories would be afflicted with this disease. In the United States, from 1996 to 2005, North Carolina accounted for about 37% of all deaths caused by<unk> , with 31, followed by South Carolina (8) and Georgia (7). There is a lack of information regarding the prevalence and impact of<unk>  in low and middle income countries (LMIC) despite the fact that of the 25 million tons of cotton produced world wide, about two thirds of this production comes from LMICs like India, Pakistan, and China. Many textile mills and fiber producing factories located in LMICs have high rates of chronic respiratory disease caused by<unk> . The term "brown lung" is a misnomer, as the lungs of affected individuals are not brown.<unk>  is also referred to as cotton worker's lung, mill fever, brown lung disease, and Monday fever.
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