Mass Lead Intoxication from Informal Used Lead-Acid Battery Recycling in Dakar, Senegal

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Between November 2007 and March 2008, 18 children died from a rapidly progressive central nervous system disease of unexplained origin in a community involved in the recycling of used lead-acid batteries (ULAB) in the suburbs of Dakar, Senegal. We investigated the cause of...

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Autores principales: Haefliger, Pascal, Mathieu-Nolf, Monique, Lociciro, Stephanie, Ndiaye, Cheikh, Coly, Malang, Diouf, Amadou, Faye, Absa Lam, Sow, Aminata, Tempowski, Joanna, Pronczuk, Jenny, Junior, Antonio Pedro Filipe, Bertollini, Roberto, Neira, Maria
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences 2009
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2790507/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20019903
http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.0900696

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2790507/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20019903
http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.0900696

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