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Published on 02-19-2011 05:12 AM
VOG AND OUR ISLAND COMMUNITIES
Bernadette M. Longo, PhD,RN, Brian Panik, DO, FAAEM, FACOEP, FACEP, Brianne Dacalio.
This information for distribution as a trifold community handout for registered TFH members.
Vog is commonly thought of as a mixture of sulfur gases and particles that appear visible as a fog. However, it can also be an invisible gas consisting primarily of sulfur dioxide. The Ka' *ū community knows vog as the “unwanted thing.”¹ We, the people of Hawaii, are able to identify vog in the air by sight, and occasionally by smell or even taste during high exposure; but there is much more to know. We need to be informed and akamai about this
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