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Jeffrey P. Koplan, MD, MPH; Henry Falk, MD, MPH; Gareth Green, MD

JAMA. 1990;264(21):2795-2796.

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THE 1984 CHEMICAL disaster in Bhopal, India, was first and foremost a terrible human tragedy. For those who were there and even for those at considerable distances who read about it, the reality of 2000 or more persons dead and many tens of thousands poisoned by a toxic cloud is horrifying. However, in its particulars and complexities, Bhopal's chemical disaster can also serve as a case example for almost any discipline taught in a school of public health. The disaster has elements of acute and chronic epidemiology, industrial hygiene, toxicology, environmental pollution and planning, disaster preparedness and management, health economics, medical ethics, and environmental protection law, to name a few. Mehta et al¹ review the literature on the Bhopal disaster and its aftermath and focus on the long-term health effects. They recognize the incomplete nature of much of the data and the serious methodologic limitations for study that the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Ga (Drs Koplan and Falk); the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi (Dr Ramalingaswami); and the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mass (Dr Green).

Footnotes
Reprint requests to Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control (A37), Atlanta, GA 30333 (Dr Koplan).

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