Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact
An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
Richard E. Ernst +8 more
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Outbreak of Fatal Childhood Lead Poisoning Related to Artisanal Gold Mining in Northwestern Nigeria, 2010. [PDF]
Background: In May 2010, a team of national and international organizations was assembled to investigate children's deaths due to lead poisoning in villages in northwestern Nigeria.
Abdullahi M. Bashir +18 more
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Cholera revolts: a class struggle we may not like [PDF]
Few have studied cholera revolts comparatively, and certainly not over the vast terrain from Asiatic Russia to Quebec or across time from the first European cholera wave of the 1830s to the twentieth century.
Cohn Jr, Samuel Kline
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Inorganic Mercurial Poisoning [PDF]
The clinical course of a patient who ingested inorganic mercurial compounds is described. The toxicity of these compounds is discussed and approaches to management outlined. As the long term prognosis in such cases is uncertain, intensive resuscitation and supportive therapy would appear to be justified.
M E, Datyner, P A, Cox
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Taki Onqoy: Mercury poisoning epidemic in 16th century Huamanga
Taki Onqoy is a syndrome that corresponds to the poisoning from exposure to mercury. It appeared as a result of the exploitation of the mercury mines of Paras and Huancavelica in Peru during the 16th century. The Cachexia mercurial, the last stage of the
Luis Alberto Santa María
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Survey of Methylmercury Exposures and Risk Factors Among Indigenous Communities in Guyana, South America [PDF]
Background. Gold mining activities in forested areas across Guyana have been a common practice for more than a century. The intensification of artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) in recent decades caused by global market demand is contributing ...
L. Cynthia Watson +3 more
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Systemic vasculitis in a child mimicking mercury poisoning [PDF]
Gündüz Z +4 more
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Accidental consumption of mercury by 3 year-old child - case report
Consumption of mercury can be accidental or on purpose. The article presents a case of a 3 yo child’s word patient after accidental consumption of mercury contained in the thermometer used to check the body temperature of body during infection.
Magdalena Fabjan, Robert Majcher
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Mercury in the Umbilical Cord: Implications for Risk Assessment for Minamata Disease [PDF]
Umbilical cord tissue was obtained from 50 births in the Faroe Islands, where high mercury intake is due to ingestion of pilot whale meat. The mercury concentration correlated significantly with the frequency of maternal whale meat dinners during ...
Dalgård, Christine +3 more
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Effect of the extract of nigella sativa and Allium sativum of the complete Blood picture in vitro which treat by CdCl2.5H2o and HgO [PDF]
The study include two side : First: study the effect of two elements from heavy metal ,such as, chloride cadiumm CdCl2.5H2o and mercury oxide Hgo with three concentration (10,50,100) mg/L on the Blood picture ( RBC,WBC,Hb,PCV,ESR) invitro through three ...
Muthanna. H . Hassan, Saadi S .khamis
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