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ArticleHistoria, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos2024

Intoxication in a Colombian mercury mine: Aranzazu, 1948-1975.

Juan-Sebastián Bonilla, Alvaro J Idrovo, Helwar-Hernando Figueroa

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Article in Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. History of the measles epidemics in Colombia: an incomplete countBiomedica : revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Juan-Sebastián BonillaMaster in History, Escuela de Historia/Universidad Industrial de Santander. Bucaramanga - Colombia bsebastian98@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4076-799X
Alvaro J IdrovoTitular Professor, Departamento de Salud Pública/Escuela de Medicina/Universidad Industrial de Santander. Bucaramanga - Colombia idrovoaj@yahoo.com.mx.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9579-1463
Helwar-Hernando FigueroaTitular Professor, Escuela de Historia/Universidad Industrial de Santander. Bucaramanga - Colombia helwarff@uis.edu.co.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4310-9124

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study analyzes the activities, poisoning, and medical treatment of the "La Esperanza" mercury mine workers in Aranzazu (Caldas, Colombia) between 1948 and 1975. The mining work there was difficult due to the geological instability of the area and the use of inappropriate mining technology, which generated a high occurrence of poisoning manifested in tremors of limbs, bleeding gums, loss of teeth, and bad mouth odor. The mine was the first Colombian company to treat its poisoned workers with dimercaprol and penicillamine. Occupational toxicology in Colombia was thus born during one of the most significant occupational health disasters in the country.

Indexed as

Mercury PoisoningMiningColombiaHistory, 20th CenturyHumansMercuryOccupational DiseasesOccupational ExposureMercury

Identifiers

PMID39417467
PMCPMC11472786

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