Legionella species are found naturally in warm and humid environments

Huang et al. applied principal component analysis to data from their study, which showed that controlled exposure to CAPS from the Chapel Hill area induced an increase in neutrophils in the bronchial and alveolar fraction and increased blood fibrinogen levels in young healthy adults . The results of this analysis indicated that among the water-soluble fraction of…

The same research group studied 259 salt miners in five mines with different diesel exposures

Selected indoor home concentrations of various semivolatile PAH compounds for 33 homes in Californiaand Ohio ranged from 9.2 to 210 ng/m3 for phenanthrene, 0.29 to 1100 ng/m3 for quinoline, 2.40 to 37.4 ng/m3 for fluoranthrene, and 0.00 to 4.13 ng/m3 for benzo[a]pyrene . Concentrations were higher in homes with tobacco smoking. Phenanthrene, for example, was…