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Laman Amin-Zaki, MD; Sami Elhassani, MD; Mohammed A. Majeed, MD; Thomas W. Clarkson, PhD; Richard A. Doherty, MD; Michael R. Greenwood, MS; Teresa Giovanoli-Jakubczak, PhD

Am J Dis Child. 1976;130(10):1070-1076.

Abstract
• The signs and symptoms of methylmercury poisoning and the concentrations of mercury in samples of blood, hair, and milk are reported and compared in two infant-mother pairs exposed in the recent Iraq outbreak.¹ In one pair, the infant was born prior to the exposure of the mother, and was exposed only from ingestion of methylmercury in mother's milk. In the other pair, the mother was exposed during pregnancy and did not breast feed the infant, who died 30 days after birth. Both mothers had some signs and symptoms of poisoning, but the infants did not. The infants had maximum estimated blood mercury levels between

Author Affiliations
From the Medical College, University of Baghdad, Iraq (Drs Amin-Zaki, Elhassani, and Majeed) and the Medical School, University of Rochester (NY) (Drs Clarkson, Doherty, and Greenwood), and the Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Medical Academy, Warsaw (Dr Giovanoli-Jakubczak). Dr Elhassani is presently with the Department of Pediatrics, University of South Carolina.

Footnotes
Reprint requests to Department of Pediatrics, Box 666, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY 14642 (Dr Doherty).

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