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Carbon Monoxide Toolkit

Keywords / Description:

Carbon monoxide, or CO, is an odorless, colorless gas that can cause sudden illness and death. It is produced any time a fossil fuel is burned in a furnace, vehicle, generator, grill, or elsewhere, and can build up in enclosed or semi-enclosed spaces and poison the people and animals in them. The following toolkit includes facts about CO poisoning, the people it affects and how it can be stopped.

Toolkit:

Healthy Community Design Toolkit

Keyword Area:

Air Quality, All-Hazards, Community Environmental Health Assessment (CEHA), Environmental Health, Health Impact Assessment (HIA), Injury Prevention, National Health Information Network (NHIN), Natural Disaster, Project Public Health Ready, Public Health Information Network (PHIN), Surveillance, Transportation Planning

Jurisdiction:

3,000,000+

Institutional Author:

National Center for Environmental Health

Submitted:

10/26/2011

Modified:

10/28/2011

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