Camelford water poisoning: Aluminium in brain 'beyond belief'

[dipsydoodle]

A woman who lived in a town where aluminium sulphate was added to the water supply had aluminium levels in her brain which were "beyond belief", an inquest into her death has heard.

Carole Cross, lived in Camelford, Cornwall, in the 1980s.

The 59-year-old died in 2004 from a rare form of Alzheimer's disease.

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About 20,000 customers were affected when a relief lorry driver mistakenly added 20 tonnes of aluminium sulphate to drinking water at the Lowermoor treatment works in July 1988.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-17246490

see also : Aluminium and Alzheimer's disease http://alzheimers.org.uk/site/scripts/documents_info.php?documentID=99

[TheWraith]

1. Why were they still letting people drink the water there? nt

[dipsydoodle]

2. I don't think they realised what had happened until it was too late

and the damage done.

wike camelford water polution incident for details.

[TheWraith]

3. That seems bizarre.

Usually one-time high dose chemical contamination has much more immediate effects; long term deaths are usually the result of low-level exposure.