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For those of you who monitor such things:
Health and emergency service workers scrambled Monday to contain a rare
mercury poisoning incident that led last week to a Yakima {Washington}
teenager being hospitalized. . . . The victim, identified as Fabian
Flores, 16, was admitted Wednesday to Children's Hospital and Regional
Medical Center in Seattle. The mother said her son had been
hallucinating and shaking badly for the past seven months, a degree of
mercury poisoning that one expert said was highly unusual. . . .
Flores' mother, Carmen Garcia, said in telephone interviews from the
Children's Hospital that her son was "seeing the devil," would shake
very badly and only recently was able to walk again after being treated
in the hospital.
As far as where her son got the mercury, she only knew that it came from
a "neighbor's house" some time ago, and that when she told them to get
rid of it, her boys poured it somewhere in the yard. . . .
http://www.yakima-herald.com/page/dis/288674531011009 and
http://www.yakima-herald.com/page/dis/288669587093184
Philip Hunter
Chemistry & Physics Instructor
Tacoma Community College
Building 28, Room 223 - 6
6501 South 19th Street
Tacoma, WA 98466
Phone 253-566-5302
Fax 253-460-4378
www.tacomacc.edu/home/phunter
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