Case report: Mass fluoride poisoning, Hooper Bay, Alaska.

Author: Foulkes RG.

Source: State of Alaska Department of Health and Social Services.

Year: 1994

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Abstract / Excerpt:

The death of a 41-year-old male and the illness of approximately 296 others on May 21-23, 1992, in Hooper Bay Alaska has been shown to be due to acute fluoride intoxication caused by malfunction of the fluoridation equipment of system 1 of the village’s two-system (well) water supply. Fluoride levels were reported to be as high as 150 ppm.

Citation: Foulkes RG. Case report: Mass fluoride poisoning, Hooper Bay, Alaska. Fluoride. 1994 Jan:32.