Acute Health Effects After the Elk River Chemical Spill, West Virginia, January 2014.
CONCLUSIONS: Medical records, poison center data, and CASPER household surveys were inexact but useful data sources to describe overall community health effects after a large-scale chemical spill. Analyzing multiple data sources could inform epidemiologic investigations of similar events.
PMID: 28182515 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Public Health Reports - Category: Global & Universal Tags: Public Health Rep Source Type: research
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