Carbon disulfide exposure estimate and prevalence of chronic diseases after carbon disulfide poisoning-related occupational diseases.

Background: In Korea, Carbon disulfide (CS) toxicity was an important social problem from the late 1980s to the early 1990s but there have been few large-scale studies examining the prevalence of diseases after CS exposure discontinuance. So we investigated past working exposure to CS characteristics from surviving ex-workers of a rayon manufacturing plant including cumulative CS exposure index. Furthermore, we studied the prevalence of their chronic diseases recently after many years.