Organomercury poisoning in Iraq [a follow-up study]

Fifty severely poisoned Iraqi patients by organomercury compounds in 1971-1972 were studied in order to determine the changes in sings and symptoms in these individuals after 17 years and to find the effects of this poison on their reproductive ability. 42% were females and 58% were males. Their ages ranged between 20-70 years. The results showed considerable improvement in most of the sign and symptoms of the severely ellected cases. Most of them have normal sexual and reproductive abilities. There was improvement in bindness, unability to walk hearing changes and rash with different rates of cure in all other symptoms. Constriction of the visual field remained in 64% acuity of vision improved