Clinical effects

health effects: 
  • muscle twitching and tenderness
  • hypersalivation
  • mental confusion
  • irritability
  • severe headaches
  • nausea
  • depression
  • retards physiological development
  • affects the central nervous system
  • brain damage
  • convulsions
  • speech difficulties
  • severe reduction in motor activities
  • uncoordination
  • schizophrenic
  • serious eye and skin irritation
  • rashes
  • fever
  • stomach problems
  • hypothyroidism
  • fatigue
  • skin, nose, eye, throat bronchi irritation
     
    organs targeted: 
    • liver
    • kidney

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diseases caused: 
  • leukemia
  • non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
  • reticulum cell sarcoma
 
  • prostatic cancer
  • multiple myeloma
  • stomach cancer
Highest risk: 
  • infants
  • young children
  • fetus
  • pregnant woman
  • agricultural workers
 

bioaccumulation: stays in children and parents giving abnormal birth/growth to new born child. 
 

 
 
 
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