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Your Local Poison Center
• 1-800-222-1222
• Internet: www.aapcc.org
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Carbon Monoxide
http://www.epa.gov/iaq/co.html
CDC
Carbon Monoxide
http://www.cdc.gov/co/
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Home Heating Equipment Safety
www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/pubs/heatpubs.html
Carbon Monoxide Alarms
www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml01/
01069.html
Portable Generators
www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/pubs/portgen.html
1 Centers for Disease Control and Policy. Carbon Monoxide-
Related Deaths - United States, 1999-2004. Morbidity and
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2 Home Safety Council. Unintentional Home Injury in the
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sohs_2004_p017.pdf.
3 (CDC), National Center for Environmental Health, "Carbon
Monoxide Poisoning: Questions and Answers," July 2006.
http://www.cdc.gov/co/faqs.htm
4 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Indoor
Environments Division (6607J) Office of Air and Radiation,
"Protect Your Family and Yourself from Carbon Monoxide
Poisoning," October 1996. http://www.epa.gov/iaq/pubs/
coftshthtml
5 Delayed Neuropathology after Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
Is Immune-Mediated, Stephen R. Thorn, Veena M. Bhopale,
Donald Fisher, Jie Zhang, Phyllis Gimotty and Robert E. Forster,
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13665.
EPA. 2000. Air Quality Criteria for Carbon Monoxide. U.S.EPA,
National Center for Environmental Assessment. June, 2000.
EPA 600/P-99/001F.
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Center for Environmental Health, "Carbon Monoxide Poisoning:
Questions and Answers," July 2006. http://www.cdc.gov/co/
faqs.htm
7 CPSC. 2004. Non-Fire Carbon Monoxide Deaths Associated
with the Use of Consumer Products: 2001 Annual Estimates.
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Division of Hazard
Analysis, May 13, 2004.
8 Raub, J. A., M. MathieuNolf, N. B. Hampson, and S. R. Thorn.
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unintentional carbon monoxide poisoning differs across racial/
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12 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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eh/indoorair/co/index.html
Protecting iht Health
of Older Americans
Traditional Chinese translation of: Preventing
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
Publication Number EPA 100-F-09-010
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