Mass Lead Intoxication from Informal Used Lead-Acid Battery Recycling in Dakar, Senegal | Zendy

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Mass Lead Intoxication from Informal Used Lead-Acid Battery Recycling in Dakar, Senegal

Author(s) -

Pascal Haefliger,

M. Mathieu-Nolf,

S. Lociciro,

Cheikh Ndiaye,

Malang Coly,

Amadou Diouf,

Absa Lam Faye,

Aminata Sow,

Joanna Tempowski,

Jenny Pronczuk,

Antonio Pedro Filipe,

Roberto Bertollini,

María Neira

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

environmental health perspectives

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257

H-Index - 282

eISSN - 1552-9924

pISSN - 0091-6765

DOI - 10.1289/ehp.0900696

Subject(s) - lead poisoning , medicine , environmental health , lead intoxication , lead exposure , ingestion , lead (geology) , circumstantial evidence , pediatrics , toxicology , geography , biology , cats , psychiatry , paleontology , archaeology

Between November 2007 and March 2008, 18 children died from a rapidly progressive central nervous system disease of unexplained origin in a community involved in the recycling of used lead-acid batteries (ULAB) in the suburbs of Dakar, Senegal. We investigated the cause of these deaths.

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