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To the Editor: More than 200 000 people were exposed to methyl isocyanate (MIC) and other gases following the Union Carbide (UC) Pesticide Plant incident at Bhopal, India, on December 3, 1984; in addition to thousands of deaths from acute exposure, this incident has resulted in chronic health problems.^1-3 We measured the effects of exposure to fumes from the incident on the physical growth pattern of adolescents.

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Between May 10 and June 30, 2001, we made anthropometric measurements in exposed adolescents as well as in age- and sex-matched unexposed individuals.

The exposed individuals lived within 1 km northeast of the UC plant at the time of the incident; this area recorded a death rate of more than 3% (150 times the normal rate) within a week of the incident.⁴ The unexposed individuals lived in localities 15 km southwest or 4 km northwest of the factory; these areas were not affected because . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Nishant Ranjan, BA; Satinath Sarangi, MTech; V. T. Padmanabhan, MPhil
Sanbhavna Clinic
Bhopal, India

Steve Holleran, BA; Rajasekhar Ramakrishnan, ScD
Department of Pediatrics
Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons
New York, NY

Daya R. Varma, MD, PhD
Department of Pharmacology
McGill University
Montreal, Quebec

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