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Blue People

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Blue People
The appearance of people exposed to concentrated sodium nitrite, which oxidises haemoglobin to methaemoglobin, resulting in a dusky blue-grey skin colour; patients with congenital methaemoglobinemia are at risk for haemoglobin oxidation by nitrites; other risk groups include dynamite workers, amyl nitrite ‘poppers’, cardiac patients treated with nitroglycerin, and newborns—erythrocyte cytochrome B5 reductase is low


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Police said Mr Arshad's blue people carrier taxi collected him at 8.
Police want to speak to the driver of a blue people carrier who was parked in the area at the time.
Crew manager, Alan Moore, who is normally based at St Helens fire station, and has 17 years experience in the fire service, says: "Because our van is blue people do not realise there are firemen on board, they think we are police officers.
 
 
 
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