Epidemiologic Notes and Reports: Angiosarcoma of the Liver Among Polyvinyl Chloride Workers--Kentucky [Reprint]

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• Personal Author:
  Landrigan, Philip J.
• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)Office of the Associate Director for Science.
• Description:
  Originally published February 9, 1974, reprinted February 7, 1997 with editorial note by Philip J. Landrigan.
  
  As part of its commemoration of CDC’s 50th anniversary, MMWR is reprinting selected MMWR articles of Historyical interest to public health, accompanied by current editorial notes.
  
  Reprinted below is a report published February 9, 1974, which described the investigation of a cluster of cases of angiosarcoma of the liver among polyvinyl chloride workers in Kentucky, followed by a contemporary editorial note. The report illustrates the public health process in occupational safety and health—progressing from the initial observation of a new problem by informed clinicians through follow-up epidemiologic and toxicologic investigations to a targeted regulatory response, which virtually eliminated the newly recognized problem.
  
  1997 Editorial Note by Philip J Landrigan, MD, MSc, Chairman, Department of Community Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, and former Director, Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, CDC.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Hemangiosarcoma/Chemically Induced Hemangiosarcoma/History History, 20th Century Liver Neoplasms/Chemically Induced Liver Neoplasms/History Occupational Diseases/Chemically Induced Occupational Diseases/History Occupational Exposure Occupational Exposure/History Polyvinyl Chloride Polyvinyl Chloride/History

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• Source:
  MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 1997; v. 46, no. 5
• Series:
  Weekly Report: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• ISSN:
  0149-2195 (print) ; 1545-861X (digital)
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Genre:
  Reprint
• Place as Subject:
  Kentucky
• Pages in Document:
  p. [97]-101
• Volume:
  46
• Issue:
  5
• Collection(s):
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
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