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Article: Heavy on the metals: parsing the particulate content of the London Smog.(Science Selections)
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- Environmental Health Perspectives
- Article date:
- July 1, 2003
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Half a century after the 1952 London Smog debacle, in which an estimated 12,000 people were killed in the months following a particularly intense early December bout of air pollution, a team of English and U.S. researchers has sliced through samples of old evidence to unveil a few hints about which fine particulates may have played a role in the disaster [EHP 111:1209-1214]. Although the final evidence is scant, it may help today's researchers discover the exact mechanism by which fine particulates, found to be harmful in more than 100 studies, actually damage and kill.
The team from the Royal London Hospital and the State University of New York Upstate Medical ...