TY - BOOK ID - 77944535 TI - Health Hazards of Environmental Arsenic Poisoning AU - Chen, Jianren AU - Chiou, Hung-Yi PY - 2011 SN - 1283433362 9786613433367 981429182X 9789814291828 9781283433365 9789814291811 9814291811 PB - Singapore Hackensack, NJ World Scientific Pub. DB - UniCat KW - Arsenic KW - Epidemics. KW - Disease outbreaks KW - Diseases KW - Outbreaks of disease KW - Pestilences KW - Communicable diseases KW - Arseniasis KW - Arsenic poisoning KW - Arsenicism KW - Toxicology. KW - Environmental aspects. KW - Outbreaks KW - Pandemics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77944535 AB - This book covers the entire spectrum of health effects induced by chronic arsenic poisoning, which is prevalent in more than 30 countries due to the use of unclean underground water, a result of surface water pollution and shortage. This environmental health disaster has been considered more catastrophic than the Chernobyl nuclear plant explosion in the former Soviet Union and the Bhopal chemical plant explosion in India. All contributors to this review volume have done extensive research on arsenic poisoning and published excellent papers in internationally well-known journals. Health Hazards ER -