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Article: Carbon monoxide pervades senses as colorless, odorless threat
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- November 15, 2002
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(Daily Egyptian) (U-WIRE) CARBONDALE, Ill. -- With temperatures dropping,
millions of Americans are lighting their furnaces in preparation
for the coming winter. Nobody expects to be exposed to poisonous gas;
however, at least 1,500 people are killed every year because of exposure
to carbon monoxide, according to the Journal of the American Medical
Association.
Carbon monoxide is a toxic colorless, odorless and tasteless gas.
With excessive exposure, CO results in human tissue being deprived
of oxygen and may cause chronic effects such as heart damage and acute
effects like headaches and flu-like symptoms, even death by suffocation,
according to the Occupational ...