1932年Campbell首先报导威斯摩兰农业工人处理发霉干草后发生农民肺(Farmer’s Lung)后,1937年Buechner和Blitz等报告了路易斯安州蔗渣可致肺部疾病。4年后(1941年)才将吸入蔗渣所引起的疾病称为Bagassosis(蔗渣尘肺)。随后印度、阿根廷、菲律宾、秘鲁及古巴等产蔗国家都有蔗渣尘肺的报导。直至1943年Sodeman和Pullen才建议将这类由发霉蔗渣引起的疾 In 1932, Campbell first reported that the Westmoreland agricultural workers treated farmer’s lung after moldy hay. In 1937, Buechner and Blitz et al. Reported that Louisiana bagasse can cause lung diseases. Four years later (1941), the disease caused by inhalation of bagasse was called Bagassosis. Followed by India, Argentina, the Philippines, Peru and Cuba and other sugar cane production countries have reports of pneumoconiosis. It was not until 1943 that Sodeman and Pullen suggested such a disease caused by moldy bagasse