Curtis Pulliam
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>Subject: Death from dimethylmercury
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>An AP news item in today's paper discussed the death of a Dartmouth chemist
>who apparently was poisoned while researching the effects of toxic metals
>on human cells. The researcher had been working with dimethylmercury and
>spilled "one or a few drops" on her latex rubber gloves. Later permeation
>testing by a independent lab showed that dimethylmercury can pass rapidly
>through latex rubber. Medical tests in January showed that the scientist
>had 80 times the usual toxic dose of mercury in her blood. While
>undergoing treatment the researcher lapsed into a coma in February until
>her death last Sunday.
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>Additional information about the accident and a warning against handling
>dimethylmercury with latex gloves was published in the May 12th issue (p.7)
>of Chemical and Engineering News.
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Curtis R. Pulliam, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry, Geology, and Physics
Utica College of Syracuse University
1600 Burrstone Road
Utica, NY 13502
Ph. (315)792-3140
Fax: (315) 792-3292
e-mail: cpulliam@utica.ucsu.edu