Lead Contamination in Uruguay: The “La Teja” Neighborhood Case

Mañáy, Nelly; Cousillas, Adriana; Alvarez, Cristina Engel de; Heller, Teresa

doi:10.1007/978-0-387-77030-7_4

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“…Lead concentration in blood is a widely accepted and commonly used measure of lead exposure, and is considered to reflect recent, and to some extent past exposure to this metal (21). The order of lead concentration in the blood of urban dogs found in this study is similar to that reported by others (2,(12)(13)(14). Our findings also indicate that BLC in dogs was lower than the concentration reported for people living in the same environment, irrespective of the regions examined.…”

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Correlation Between the Concentration of Lead in the Blood of Dogs and People Living in the Same Environmental Conditions

Monkiewicz

Rogowska

Mielnikiewicz

et al. 2014

Bulletin of the Veterinary Institute in Pulawy

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The studies, conducted between 2010 and 2012, involved 102 dogs and 505 people from Lower Silesia (LS), 104 dogs and 578 people from the Legnica -Głogów Copper Mining Region (LGCMR), and 101 dogs and 897 people from the Upper Silesian Industrial Region (USIR). A significant positive correlation between blood lead concentration (BLC) in dogs and people living in the same environment was found. Moreover, the data revealed an increase in BLC in dogs and people with the progressive aging of the body. The highest average BLC in dogs and humans were reported in the LGCMR followed by USIR and LS.

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confidence: 84%

Correlation Between the Concentration of Lead in the Blood of Dogs and People Living in the Same Environmental Conditions

Monkiewicz

Rogowska

Mielnikiewicz

et al. 2014

Bulletin of the Veterinary Institute in Pulawy

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“…The major occupational health hazards associated with the methods include nausea, vomiting, headache, fever, chills, abdominal cramps, diarrhoea, direct irritation of the gastrointestinal tract, neuropsychiatric caused by the use of mercury to recover gold. Similar findings of the effects of lead and mercury from artisanal gold mining are also reported where gold are being mined across the world [19][20][21][22][23][24].…”

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Evaluation of Occupational Therapy Practices for Artisanal Gold Mining in Bagega Community, Zamfara State, Nigeria

Alaba

2018

J Hum Environ Health Promot

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“…A study from Illinois determined that high blood lead concentrations in a family dog resulted in a 6-fold increase in probability that at least one child in the household would have an elevated blood lead concentration [5]. Dogs tend to have significantly higher blood lead concentrations than children in the home, usually by a factor of 2 to 4 [7,18].…”

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Animals as Sentinels for Human Lead Exposure: A Case Report

Bischoff

Priest

Mount-Long³

2010

J. Med. Toxicol.

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Because human and nonhuman animals often share the same environment, there is potential concurrent exposure to toxicants. As a result, domestic animals can be used as sentinels for exposure of people to these agents. Here we present a case illustrating exposure of both humans and domestic animals to lead contamination in their environments. This case study occurred at a farm where cattle deaths were determined to have been caused by lead poisoning based on elevated postmortem tissue lead concentrations. Elevated blood lead concentrations were detected in the remaining cattle, a dog, a cat, and a pregnant woman (37.3µg/dL) living on the farm. The range of blood lead concentrations in the domestic animals was 8.42 (cat) to 85.41µg/dL (calf), although clinical signs of lead poisoning were not apparent in these animals. Further testing revealed the most likely source for lead exposure to be paint in the barn and home.Household dogs and cats have been used as sentinels for lead poisoning in humans, but cattle may also act as a sentinel species for environmental lead contamination.

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Lead Contamination in Uruguay: The “La Teja” Neighborhood Case

Cited by 73 publications

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Correlation Between the Concentration of Lead in the Blood of Dogs and People Living in the Same Environmental Conditions

Correlation Between the Concentration of Lead in the Blood of Dogs and People Living in the Same Environmental Conditions

Evaluation of Occupational Therapy Practices for Artisanal Gold Mining in Bagega Community, Zamfara State, Nigeria

Animals as Sentinels for Human Lead Exposure: A Case Report

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