Outbreak of food poisoning due to alkyl-mercury fungicide.

作者: Lionel K. A. Derban

DOI: 10.1080/00039896.1974.10666432

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摘要: A total of 144 cases alkyl-mercury poisoning in rural Ghana were investigated. Out ignorance, the patients had ingested maize which was dressed with ethylmercuric chloride and intended for sowing. They all showed usual clinical features poisoning, 20 persons died. This incidence demonstrates serious health hazards involved agricultural use compounds as fungicides an unsophisticated community. Some recommendations effective pesticide control are made.

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