Monitoring of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning. Update as of December 9, 2012
Over the past two weeks, 103 cases of CO poisoning have been reported, involving 367 people.
The increase in the weekly number of poisoning incidents is consistent with what is typically observed given the drop in temperatures over the past two weeks.
Five mass CO poisoning incidents, all related to a boiler, exposed 110 people to CO fumes (15 to 40 people affected per incident).
Four deaths occurred over the past two weeks during three incidents of accidental domestic poisoning involving a boiler.
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