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Resources on Lead in Ammunition

High lead exposure and clinical signs of toxicosis in wild Nile crocodiles (Crocodylus niloticus) from a
World Heritage site: Lake St Lucia estuarine system, South Africa. 2022. Marc Humphries, Jan
Myburgh, Robert Campbell and Xander Combrink.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.134977

Blood lead concentrations in free-ranging Nile crocodiles (Crocodylus niloticus) from South Africa 2016. Jonathan K. Warner, Xander Combrink, Jan G. Myburgh & Colleen T. Downs. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10646-016-1652-8

Association between hunting and elevated blood lead levels in the critically endangered African white-backed vulture Gyps africanus. Rebecca Garbett, GlynMaude, Pete Hancock, David Kennyb, Richard Reading, Arjun Amar. 2018. Science Direct. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969718306193?via%3Dihub

Hunting with lead: Association between blood lead levels and wild game consumption. Shahed Iqbal, Wendy Blumenthal, Chinaro Kennedy, Fuyuen Y. Yip, Stephen Pickard, W. Dana Flanders, Kelly Loringer, Kirby Kruger, Kathleen L. Caldwell, Mary Jean Brown. 2009. Science Direct. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0013935109001467

Lead Sources in Human Diet in Greenland. Peter Bjerregaard, Poul Johansen, Gert Mulvad, Henning Sloth Pedersen, and Jens C. Hansen. 2004. Environmental Health Perspectives. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1247612/

Fragmentation of hunting bullets observed with synchrotron radiation: Lighting up the source of a lesser-known lead exposure pathway. 2022. Leontowich AFG, Panahifar A, Ostrowski R (2022) PLoS ONE 17(8): e0271987. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271987

Lead and lead toxicity in domestic and free-living birds N. De Francisco, J.D. Ruiz Troya and E.I. Aguera. 2003. https://doi.org/10.1080/0307945021000070660

Xenopus laevis embryos and tadpoles as models for testing for pollution by zinc, copper, lead and cadmium. Lorren K. Haywood, Graham J. Alexander, Marcus J. Byrne and Ewa Cukrowska. 2004. African Zoology 39(2): 163–174

Lead Exposure in African Children Contemporary Sources and Concerns. 2015. World Health Organization. WHO Regional Office for Africa, P.O. Box 6, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo (Tel: +47 241 39100; +242 065081114; Fax: +47 241 39501: Email: afrobooks@afro.who.int).

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