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A Cross-Sectional Survey on Knowledge and Perceptions of Health Risks Associated with Arsenic and Mercury Contamination from Artisanal Gold mining in Tanzania. [PDF]

, 2013
An estimated 0.5 to 1.5 million informal miners, of whom 30-50% are women, rely on artisanal mining for their livelihood in Tanzania. Mercury, used in the processing gold ore, and arsenic, which is a constituent of some ores, are common occupational ...
A Vreedzaa, AR Zxsmann, Deborah Dewey, Deborah SK Thomas, Elias Charles, Eveline Konje, G Hilson, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland – GEUS, H Taylor, ILO, J Conant, JB Jønsson, JB Wickre, JR Ikingura, K Islam, K Phan, M Argos, M Joseph, Mark Davey, MM Veiga, MMR Sarker, NJ Langford, P Van Straaten, PL Smedley, R Chouinard, S Bose-O'Reilly, S Bose-O’Reilly, S Wagner, Sospatro E Ngallaba, SW Al-Rmalli, Tanzania Commission for AIDS (TACAIDS), Zanzibar AIDS Commission (ZAC), National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Office of the Chief Government Statistician (OCGS), Macro International Inc, The Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development Project (MMSD), The National Academy of Sciences, United Nations Development Programme, WD James, WJ Crinnion   +35 more
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HER2 overexpression triggers the IL-8 to promote arsenic-induced EMT and stem cell-like phenotypes in human bladder epithelial cells

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2021
Arsenic is a natural chemical element that is strongly associated with bladder cancer. Understanding the underlying mechanisms behind the association between arsenic and bladder cancer as well as identifying effective preventive interventions will help ...
Qing Zhou, Peiyu Jin, Jieyu Liu, Sihao Li, Weijue Liu, Shuhua Xi   +5 more
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Arsenic contamination in groundwater causing impaired memory and intelligence in school children of Simri village of Buxar district of Bihar

Journal of Mental Health and Human Behaviour, 2019
Background: Over the last few decades there has been increased health related issues due to arsenic poisoning worldwide. In India, in state of Bihar, 18 districts are affected from arsenic poisoning causing various health related problems in the exposed ...
Arun Kumar, Md Samiur Rahman, Ranjit Kumar, Mohammad Ali, Pintoo Kumar Niraj, Abhinav Srivastava, Sushil Kumar Singh, Ashok Kumar Ghosh   +7 more
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Genome-wide DNA methylation pattern in whole blood of patients with coal-burning arsenic poisoning

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2022
Exposure to coal-burning arsenic leads to an increased risk of cancer, multi-systems damage and chronic diseases, with DNA methylation one potential mechanism of arsenic toxicity.
Shaofeng Wei, Wenjing Wang, Shiwen Liu, Baofei Sun, Qibing Zeng, Guoze Wang, Peng Luo, Aihua Zhang   +7 more
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Experimental Study of Removal Heavy Metal of Arsenic from Water Using Nano Absorber Iron Oxide/N- Isopropyl Acrylamide/Chitosan [PDF]

آب و فاضلاب, 2020
Heavy metals are among the environmental pollutants that human exposure to some of them through water and food can cause chronic and dangerous poisoning.
Parisa Douzandeh Ziabari, Mohsen Dehghani Ghanateghestani   +1 more
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A Report of 2 Cases of Acute Hydrogen Arsenide Poisoning

International Medical Case Reports Journal, 2023
Xingyi Wang, Lishuang Bai, Xiao Ma, Li-Shan Yang Emergency Department, General Hospital of Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, 750000, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Li-Shan Yang, Email nyfyyls@126.comAbstract: Arsenic and its compounds are ...
Wang X, Bai L, Ma X, Yang LS
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Contextual factors among indiscriminate or larger attacks on food or water supplies, 1946-2015 [PDF]

, 2016
This research updates previous inventories of malicious attacks on food and water to include data from 1946 through mid-2015. A systematic search of news reports, databases and previous inventories of poisoning events was undertaken.
Agence France-Presse, Agence France-Presse, Beilharz N, Bianchin R, Eckholm E, Farwell J, Felongco G, Holloway P, Howitt AM, Koukouliou V, Kroll DJ, Li G, Longworth R, Majumdar D, Motarjemi Y, Rutherford H, Ryan S, Sims C, Sridharan V, Taylor R, Ximin H   +20 more
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Multiple Bowen's disease and epithelioid malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor in a patient who experienced chronic arsenic poisoning

Formosan Journal of Surgery, 2017
The Southwest coastal plain of Taiwan is an endemic area of arsenic contamination. Residents who lived there before the 1970s and who used raw groundwater for drinking have a higher risk of arsenic poisoning. In 1968, Tseng et al.
Ching-En Chen, Yu-Chen Wang, Hsu Ma
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Contamination mapping in Bangladesh using a multivariate spatial Bayesian model for left-censored data [PDF]

arXiv, 2021
Arsenic (As) and other toxic elements contamination of groundwater in Bangladesh poses a major threat to millions of people on a daily basis. Understanding complex relationships between arsenic and other elements can provide useful insights for mitigating arsenic poisoning in drinking water and requires multivariate modeling of the elements.
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Assessment of Arsenic poisoning among printing textile workers in Baghdad.

مجلة كلية الطب, 2017
Background: Workers of textile industry are mainly exposed to a variety of toxic dyes, bleaching agents, salts, acids, alkalis and heavy metals like arsenic through evaporation and inhale by workers or direct skin contact during the textile mordant ...
Ali A. Ali sahib
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