Arsenic Toxicology and Its Effects on Human Health / 环境与健康杂志

ABSTRACT

Environmental arsenic content is influenced by natural condition, microorganism and human activity.Certain natural conditions favor arsenic mobilization to the environment.Some microorganisms adapt in high arsenic environment, which is an important factor for arsenic biotransformation and mobilization in the environment.Moreover, human activities can intensify arsenic accumulation in the environment.The environmental arsenic accumulates rapidly through the food chain and enters human bodies to be detoxicated through methylation.Water arsenic pollution is one of very serious public health problems, which not only causes acute and chronic toxicosis, but also increases human susceptivity to many kinds of diseases.