Outbreak of Food Poisoning Due to Alkyl-Mercury Fungicide
- 1 January 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Archives of environmental health
- Vol. 28 (1) , 49-52
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00039896.1974.10666432
Abstract
A total of 144 cases of alkyl-mercury poisoning in rural Ghana were investigated. Out of ignorance, the patients had ingested maize which was dressed with ethylmercuric chloride and intended for sowing. They all showed the usual clinical features of alkyl-mercury poisoning, and 20 persons died. This incidence demonstrates the serious health hazards involved in the agricultural use of alkyl-mercury compounds as fungicides in an unsophisticated rural community. Some recommendations for effective pesticide control are made.Keywords
This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
- Absorption and Excretion of Mercury in ManArchives of environmental health, 1964
- Absorption and Excretion of Mercury in ManArchives of environmental health, 1964
- Absorption and Excretion of Mercury in ManArchives of environmental health, 1963
- Absorption and Excretion of Mercury in ManArchives of environmental health, 1963
- Absorption and Excretion of Mercury in ManArchives of environmental health, 1963
- Absorption and Excretion of Mercury in ManArchives of environmental health, 1962
- OUTBREAK OF PARALYSIS IN MOROCCO DUE TO ORTHO-CRESYL PHOSPHATE POISONINGThe Lancet, 1959
- POLYNEURITIS FROM TRICRESYL PHOSPHATEJAMA, 1932