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                 www.epa.gov/aging
http://www.epa.gov/aging/resources/
factsheets/order.htm
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
Mortality Weekly Report. December 21, 2007; 56(50): 1309-12.
2 Home Safety Council. Unintentional Home Injury in the
United States. State of Home Safety: 2004 Edition.
http://www.homesafetycouncil.org./state_of_home_safety/
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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,
Proceedings of the  National Academy of Sciences of the United
States of America, Vol. 101, No. 37 (Sep. 14, 2004), pp. 13660-
13665.
EPA. 2000. Air Quality Criteria for Carbon Monoxide. U.S.EPA,
National Center for Environmental Assessment. June, 2000.
EPA 600/P-99/001F.
6 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),  National
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.
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning - a Public Health Perspective.
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9 Liu, S. Krewski, D., Shi, Y, Chen, Y, and R.T. Burnett.
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and adverse pregnancy outcomes in Vancouver, Canada.
Environmental Health Perspectives. 111:1773-1778.
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unintentional carbon monoxide poisoning differs across racial/
ethnic categories. Public Health Reports. 115:46-51. U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services.
11 Yoon, S., Macdonald, S., Parrish, G. 1998. Deaths from
unintentional carbon monoxide poisoning and potential for
prevention with carbon monoxide detectors. JAMA. 279(9):
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12 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Healthy Homes Issues: Carbon Monoxide, Healthy homes
Initiative Background Information, December 2005. http://
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Your Home," April 2007. http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/
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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