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On November 11, 2011, six humidifier disinfectants which contain PHMG and PGH were recovered. PHMG and PGH was banned in 2011, and new cases ceased occurring. [1] [2] However, later on, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention did not find a causal relationship that CMIT and MIT in humidifier disinfectants cause pulmonary fibrosis.
[7] ==Uses== PHMG was used in Russia to disinfect hospitals [5] and from 2001 on, it was widely used in South Korea as a disinfectant to prevent microbial contamination in household humidifiers. [8] PHMG was "originally marketed for cleaning a humidifier's water tank but instead used by the public as a water additive to suppress microbial ...
Air Murder (Korean: 공기살인; RR: Gonggisarin) is a 2022 South Korean legal drama film written and directed by Jo Yong-sun. The film, based on novel Gyun by So Ji-won, [2] which deals with the humidifier disinfectant disaster that actually happened in Korea, [a] was released on April 22, 2022.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korea says 23 people have died and more than 6,700 are isolated at homes and medical facilities as officials continue their efforts to put the MERS outbreak under ...
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A report on Sina.com in May 2016 said that PHMG was known to have caused 70 deaths and to harmed the lungs of 177 people, with the actual total of deaths and people injured unknown. [ 64 ] Reckitt Benckiser Korea has been blamed for 103 deaths by a coalition of consumer groups in South Korea; [ 67 ] a report from The Korea Herald in April 2016 ...
Infectious disease deaths in Korea (2 C, 2 P) This page was last edited on 30 March 2015, at 16:07 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...