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Investigation of suspected copper intoxication in children from drinking water Volume 6 Issue 1

Andrew Scholz, Peter Cavagnino

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Andrew Scholz

Peter Cavagnino

Abstract

In September 1993 the supervisor of a tennis club in South Western Sydney reported to the Public Health Unit (PHU) that 15 children became ill at a school holiday tennis clinic after consuming water drawn from a distribution system that supplies potable water to a semi-rural township.