Reasons to Install CO Detectors

Here are some good reasons to install Carbon Monoxide detectors (at your expense) in every unit!

• CO is colorless, odorless, and tasteless
• Low level of CO can cause cause irreversible learning and memory defects in fetuses
• Early symtpoms of CO poisoning are often diagnosed as a virus (dizzy, headache, nausea, fatigue)
• Half of all fatal poisonings in the USA are attributed to CO
• Automobiles are a major source of CO (i.e. attached garages)
• Heart attacks can be triggered by high-levels of background CO
• Appliance malfunction and back drafting casue 1500 US fatalities every year and 10,000 serious injuries (blindness, brain damage, etc.)