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    Polymer fume fever or fluoropolymer fever, also informally called Teflon flu, is an inhalation fever caused by the fumes released when polytetrafluoroethylene...
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  • Metal fume fever, also known as brass founders' ague, brass shakes, zinc shakes, galvie flu, galvo poisoning, metal dust fever, welding shivers, or Monday...
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    health outcomes like metal fume fever, polymer fume fever, occupational asthma, and allergic reaction. A fume extractor can be a fume hood, but can also be...
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    (polymer fume fever), although in humans those symptoms disappear within a day or two of being moved to fresh air. Most cases of polymer fume fever in...
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  • organomegaly, endocrinopathy, monoclonal protein, skin changes) Polymer fume fever Post–cardiac injury syndrome Postmyocardial infarction syndrome Primary...
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    hydrofluoric acid and a variety of organofluorine compounds which can cause polymer fume fever in humans and can be lethal to birds. Concerns have been raised over...
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  • polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), one of the substances invoked to explain polymer fume fever. Phosgene Bis(trifluoromethyl) disulfide Timperley, Christopher M...
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    issues Teratogen Carcinogen Endocrine disruptor Diabetes Obesity Polymer fume fever Pollution Plastic pollution Rubber pollution Great Pacific garbage...
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    oxides, which in some cases can lead to medical conditions like metal fume fever. The size of the particles in question tends to influence the toxicity...
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    necessary in fume extraction equipment. Fumes of certain materials, notably zinc and copper alloys, have a disagreeable odour and may cause a fever-type reaction...
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    named "metal fume fever". This condition rarely lasts longer than 24 hours, but severe cases can be fatal. Not unlike common influenza, fevers, chills, nausea...
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    Anthrax is Doubted,” suggesting that the senate spores were coated with fumed silica. Two bioweapons experts that were utilized as consultants by the...
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    production Spelter Wet storage stain Zinc alloy electroplating Metal fume fever Piotr Steinkeller The thermal expansion of zinc is anisotropic. The coefficients...
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    welding galvanized (zinc-plated) steel, can result in a malady called metal fume fever. In sunscreen formulations that combined zinc oxide with small-molecule...
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    or most commonly as fumes, can also result in a condition called metal fume fever. Chromium, arsenic, cadmium, mercury, and lead have the greatest potential...
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