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EDITORIALS: Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Staring into the abyss: walking the nuclear tightrope in south Asia BMJ 1998; 317: 363 [Full text]

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Chemical disasters: a brief geographical correction

D Patrick Ford   (18 August 1998)

Chemical disasters: a brief geographical correction 18 August 1998
D Patrick Ford, Consultant Center for Occupational & Environmental Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA Send response to journal: Re: Chemical disasters: a brief geographical correction	This article mentions the locations of two prior chemical disasters: Bhopal and Seveso. I believe Seveso, a town where in July 1976 a runaway chemical reaction caused the discharge of large amounts of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodioxin, is located in the Lombardy region of Italy, not Brazil as indicated.