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Tue Sep 2 13:53:07 BST 2008

I see that we have several devils on the list. There are hundreds of
thousands of people walking around the world today with pieces of metal
(most of them lead) in their bodies: Sudan, Congo, Somalia, Ethiopia,
Eritrea, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan,
Tadjikistan, Chechnya, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea, Uganda, Chad, Yemen,
Georgia, just to name a few where I, and my colleagues from the ICRC, have
worked in the last few decades.

Like projectile embolisation, plumbism is so rare that it qualifies to be
published as a case report. The exceptions: in contact with a fluid etc.,
that several members have already dealt with. Even then, it is rare, rare,
and rare, just like I prefer my steaks.

-- 
christos giannou
Monemvasia Lakonia
23070 Greece
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