Health effects of the September 2009 dust storm in Sydney, Australia: did emergency department visits and hospital admissions increase?

BACKGROUND: During September 2009, a large dust storm was experienced in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Extremely high levels of particulate matter were recorded, with daily average levels of coarse matter (<10 μm) peaking over 11,000 μg/m(3) and fine (<2.5 μm) over 1,600 μg/m(3). We cond...

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Autores principales: Merrifield, Alistair, Schindeler, Suzanne, Jalaludin, Bin, Smith, Wayne
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3639126/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23587335
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-069X-12-32