Introduction: Due to dissimilarities in the availability of poisons in different areas and lack of enough control over the purchase and sale of some dangerous rodenticides, it is prudent to establish the distribution of rodenticide poisoning in each region. Therefore, this study was performed to evaluate the demographic factors, types of poisons, duration of hospitalization and mortality of pat...

Arsenic poisoning affects millions of people worldwide. Human arsenic intake from rice consumption can be substantial because rice is particularly efficient in assimilating arsenic from paddy soils, although the mechanism has not been elucidated. Here we report that two different types of transporters mediate transport of arsenite, the predominant form of arsenic in paddy soil, from the externa...

Bangladesh and neighboring areas face large health threats from drinking arseniccontaminated ground water. Arsenic levels in Bangladesh ground water are typically several hundred μg/L (compared to WHO recommendation of 10 μg/L for the MCL). About 50 million people drink such water, with hundreds of thousands already showing serious adverse health effects in what is described as the largest mass...

than taking a dose of medicine, and the practitioner, having acquired a certain manipulative dexterity, approaches it in much the same spirit. The following three cases, occurring in a series of 3,098 injections of organic arsenic extending over three years, shew that the procedure is not unattended with a definite risk of alarming sequelae. It is a risk, moreover, of which we have no warning, ...

The most common health effects from drinking-water containing dissolved arsenic are skin abnormalities and lesions that are typically diagnosed as keratosis and pigment disorder. It was previously reported that the prevalence of cutaneous lesions was about 44% in arsenic-affected villages. However, there has been little research on the relationship between levels of arsenic in drinking-water an...

widespread arsenic contamination of mining wastewater of zarshouran (west azerbaijan province) hasled to a massive epidemic of arsenic poisoning in the whole of surrounding areas. it is estimated thatapproximately all agriculture fields are being irrigated with the water that its arsenic concentrationselevated above the world health organization’s standard of 10 parts per billion. a novel advan...