Mercury in Human Hair and Fish: is there a Hong Kong Male Subfertility Connection?   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

M. D. Dickman  K. M. C. Leung  L. C. L. Koo 《Marine pollution bulletin》1999,39(1-12):352-356

Hair is a useful indicator of a person’s exposure to mercury. For this reason, hair samples from 94 fertile and 117 subfertile Hong Kong residents were compared over four separate age groups. A typical 30 year old Hong Kong male had a hair mercury concentration of approximately 3.3 mg/kg mercury while a 60 year old Hong Kong subfertile male had a hair mercury concentration of about 7.5 mg/kg. Most of this mercury comes from seafood consumption. Individuals consuming four or more meals of fish per week had a hair mercury of 4.07 mg/kg dry weight of hair while those consuming fish less frequently had significantly lower levels (2.56 mg/kg). Hong Kong residents that consumed no fish had only 1.21 mg/kg hair mercury. The relative risks of males with moderate and high levels of mercury in their hair were significant (p=0.062). Age corrected estimates of risk indicated that compared with men with low levels of mercury in their hair, men with higher levels were twice as likely to be subfertile (relative risk, 1.95) and there was a dose–response trend that was highly significant (p < 0.0005). In light of these risks we concluded that the maximum permitted mercury level in food sold in Hong Kong should be lowered from 0.5 mg/kg wet weight to a level to be determined by risk analysis. In Japan, where fish mercury levels and fish consumption rates are lower than those in Hong Kong, the maximum amount of mercury permitted in food for human consumption is 0.3 mg/kg wet weight.  相似文献   

SARS空间传播模式及其在疫情监控信息系统设计中的应用   总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4  

阎守邕  刘亚岚  李小文  曹春香  金水高 《遥感学报》2003,7(4):266-272

在中国控制SARS(Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome)疫情扩散与蔓延的大量科学实践活动基础上，从人地系统科学的理论和观点出发，提出了各种致病因子在人地互动过程中转移路径的逻辑模型，进而又提出了控制SARS疫情发展的人地互动逻辑模型。从后一个模型出发，把中国SARS疫情的发展规律归纳为5种传播模式，即异类病毒转移传播模式、家庭和社区接触传播模式、医院和门诊感染传播模式、市内随机扩散传播模式和飞点跳跃跨区传播模式。其中，跨区传播模式的影响最广泛、危害最巨大、控制起来最艰巨、复杂，是建立中国突发公共卫生事件应急机制、增强应急能力需要解决的主要问题和关键内容。为此，作者对中国的疫情控制应急机制及其实现提出了一些具体的看法和建议，包括对现有疫情系统进行技术改造和创新的建议，在全新运作机制和高技术基础上建立应急疫情监测控制信息系统的概念结构等内容。  相似文献   

Development and application of data collection forms for post-earthquake surveys of structural damage and human casualties     

Choudhury  G. Sayeed  Jones  Nicholas P. 《Natural Hazards》1996,13(1):17-38

To reduce loss of life and injury resulting from earthquakes, the relationship between earthquake-induced building failure and injury severity and distribution needs to be clarified. For this purpose, a series of data collection forms were developed to collect pertinent data for post-event analysis and to provide a basis for structural triage in the field shortly following an earthquake for search and rescue purposes. A companion paper described the identification of variables affecting the outcome of an occupant of a damaged building and the classification of these variables into three levels of priority for data collection. This paper continues the development by describing the design of the data collection forms and the application of the forms to damaged buildings from past earthquakes. These forms represent a significant departure from existing forms in that they consider both casualties and building damage jointly, and in a consistent format.  相似文献