Mexico hospitality

SOURCE Courtesy of the Cancer Research Microscopy Facility, University of New Mexico Hospital the W.M. Keck foundation and the following individuals Anthony L. Garcia, Linnea K. Ista, Dimiter N. Petsev, Michael J. O Brien, Paul Bisong, Andrea A. Mammoli, Steven R J. Brueck, and Gabriel P. Lopez. 

An accident complicated by fog, weak winds, and a surface inversion occurred in Poza Rica, Mexico, in the early morning of November 24, 1950, when hydrogen sulfide was released from a plant for the recovery of sulfur from natural gas. There were 22 deaths, and 320 persons were hospitalized. 

Znidi N, Ponce de Leon S, Oritz RM, et al Hospital-acquired diarrhea in adults A prospective case-controlled study in Mexico. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 1991 12 349— 355. 

At age thirty-one Erica began medical school at the University of Colorado. She completed a three-year family practice residency in a Denver hospital, then went to Cuba, New Mexico, where she served as the medical director of a rural hospital as repayment for her National Health Service scholarship. After serving in that capacity she was married for two years. She has one son who is now ten years old. 

Brown KD, Kulis J, Thomson B et al (2006) Occurrence of antibiotics in hospital, residential, and dairy effluent, municipal wastewater, and the Rio Grande in New Mexico. Sci Total Environ 366 772-783... 

Figure 2.6 Antibiotics detected in effluents from three hospitals in New Mexico compared to a couple of residential sites in the same general locahty. (From Brown, 2004.)...

Brown K.D. (2004). Pharmaceutically active compounds in residential and hospital effluent, municipal wastewater, and the Rio Grande in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Water Resource Program, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. Publication No. WRP-9. 

Pierre Chaurand, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN Julia E. Fulghum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Rigoberto Hernandez, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Daniel A. Higgins, Kansas State University, Manhattan Robert Hwang, Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM Katrin Kneipp, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA... 

Epidemic typhus occurs chiefly where unfavorable social and sanitary conditions prevail, in dark overcrowded living quarters, hospitals, prisons, emigration ships, caused by crop failures and price increases, thus also known as starvation, hospital, prison, ship or war typhus. Typhus is endemic in Russia, the Balkans, northern Africa, Asia Minor, and Mexico. According to Tarrassevich, 25-30 million people sufferedfrom typhus in Russia in 1918-1921, which amounts to 20-23% of the population. [...]... 

The authors wish to acknowledge Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologi a (CONACYT), and CNRS (France) for financial support. They are grateftill to Prof. K. Nakatani (E.N.S. Cachan, France) for the laser studies, and the hospitality of his laboratory, to Dr R. Santillan (CINVESTAV, Mexico City), and to C. Lepetit (LCC, Toulouse). 

In 1993 Eileen Welsome, an investigative reporter from a small local newspaper in New Mexico, published a series of investigations. She claimed that there had been secret experiments conducted by the US government in which unsuspecting hospital patients had been injected with plutonium. Her report spread rapidly to the national press. The accusations extended to claims that there had been experiments involving retarded children, prisoners, and... 

The literature describes several mercury poisoning epidemics. Outbreaks occurred in Iraq, Pakistan, and Guatemala from bread made with mercury-contaminated grain. Three separate incidents of mass poisonings occurred in Iraq in 1956,1960, and 1972 (Bakir et al. 1973). In the 1972 epidemic, 6,530 people were hospitalized, and 450 died (Maghazaji 1974). In 1969, a New Mexico family became ill after they consumed organic mercury-contaminated pork (Roueche 1970). 

Prevalence of adolescent experimentation with solvents in the United Kingdom averages 3.5%-10%, with approximately 100 deaths per year from solvent intoxication (Ramsey et al. 1989). Despite the lower Hispanic American rate in the United States, solvent abuse remains the most common adolescent addiction in Mexico City, Mexico. Mexican public psychiatric hospitals report frequent cases of inhalant-induced psychotic disorder (Doon 1990 Hernandez-Avila et al. 1998). 

University of New Mexico, 225 University of North Carolina, 3 University of Southern California Medical School and Children s Hospital, 329 University of Texas Medical Branch, 415 Washington University, 259 Wayne State University, 531 The Weizmann Institute of Science, 107... 

After returning from a trip to Mexico, a 41-year-old woman residing in New York had a week-long bout of diarrhea that resolved spontaneously. She did not feel well for the next 4 months, and abdominal discomfort then became severe, and fever (without bowel symptoms) occurred. There was no history of jaundice, gallstones, or hepatitis, but acute cholecystitis was suspected the patient was admitted to the hospital for what proved to be a normal oral cholecystogram. 

JAN FREDE UNHJEM Norwegian Radiation Protection Agency, Box 55, Osteras 1332, Norway C. EDGAR M. VASQUEZ-GARIBAY Instituto de Nutricion Human, Unidad de Invest./Cie. De la Salud, Edificio Anexo al Hospital Civil, 3, Guadalajara, Jalisco, CP 44670, Mexico... 

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