Seventeen years after water at a Camelford, Cornwall treatment works was contaminated by aluminum sulphate, a possible link between the poisoning and Alzheimer's disease has emerged. A post-mortem on 5 January 2006 carried out on a women who drank water during the poisoning incident has revealed that death was caused by Beta amyloid angiopathy, a form of cerebrovascular disease usually associated with Alzheimer's. The pathologist who carried out the post mortem examination in Oxford said it could be related to the high levels of aluminium in her brain.
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