Exposure through the air, contaminated water or food from contaminated soil, he said, is especially dangerous for unborn children, older people and people with weakened immune systems.
** The leftover plutonium must be isolated for 240,000 years before it is safe, because breathing air contaminated with it sooner can cause fatal lung cancers.
Nearly three million people living in Manhattan and the Bronx breathe air contaminated with unhealthy levels of soot that can aggravate asthma and cause strokes and heart attacks, according to the annual air-quality report of the American Lung Association.
Snow's work, however, was not totally accepted at the time, since other theories of disease causation were prevalent, most notably that of "miasmatism," which claimed that cholera was contracted by breathing air contaminated by disease-containing "clouds".
In the existing device air contaminated with organic components is mixed with auxiliary fuel (methane) in a conical diffuser.
Once an oesophageal perforation occurs, along with air, contaminated saliva and gastric contents, especially bile and strong acids enter the mediastinum, resulting in mediastinitis.
A new photoreactor geometry has been designed to treat high flow rate air contaminated with airborne Legionella pneumophila bacteria by exclusive UV-A photocatalysis.
The use of stereolithography is well suited for the fabrication of a monolithic photocatalyst for cleaning of air contaminated by volatile organic compounds (VOCs).
This was used together with a granular Cu Zn Mo Ag triethylenediamine impregnated carbon to purify air contaminated with hydrogen cyanide (HCN).
It occasionally sickens humans, usually after they breathe in air contaminated with the bacteria, which are present by the billions in amniotic fluid and placenta from infected females and in aborted fetuses.
