Acute mercury vapor poisoning. Fatality in an infant

M. E. Moutinho, A. L. Tompkins, T. W. Rowland, B. B. Banson and A. H. Jackson

A 7-month-old girl succumbed to respiratory failure following exposure to high-density mercury vapor produced by heating of the metal in the home. Her course typified inhalation mercury toxic reaction, which in its focus on pulmonary damage creates a clinical picture distinct from that of chronic and oral mercury poisoning.