The use of animals as a surveillance tool for monitoring environmental health hazards, human health hazards and bioterrorism

Animals as sentinels of human health hazards of environmental chemicals.

A workshop titled "Using Sentinel Species Data to Address the Potential Human Health Effects of Chemicals in the Environment," sponsored by the U.S. Army Center for Environmental Health Research, the National Center for Environmental Assessment of the EPA, and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, was held to consider the use of sentinel and surrogate animal species data for eva...

[Environmental chemical hazards and child health].

OBJECTIVES To review the recent medical literature on environmental chemical hazards to child health. SOURCES OF DATA Articles published on this subject between 1999 and 2005 were searched in the MEDLINE database. Books, manuals and statements on child environmental health, issued by institutions such as the American Academy of Pediatrics and the World Health Organization, were also reviewed....

Ethylenebisdithiocarbamates and ethylenethiourea: possible human health hazards.

Humans are exposed to ethylenebisdithiocarbamates (EBDCs) from environmental sources. Exposure to EBDCs is chronic for workers in a variety of industries, where EBDCs are used for their properties as slimicides, vulcanization accelerators, antioxidants, and scavengers in waste-water treatment. EBDCs, and particularly the EBDC metabolite ethylenethiourea, have clearly defined, important toxic ef...

Pharmaceutical Pollution in the Environment and Health Hazards

Health Hazards of Mercury

In Greek mythology, Mercury is the fleet-footed messenger of the Gods. He was the cleverest of the Olympians, patron of translators and interpreters. He ruled over wealth, good fortune, commerce, fertility... and thievery. He brought the souls of the dead to the underworld, and was honored as a god of sleep. As a physical substance in the living organism, however, mercury is the antithesis of t...