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The CIEH and the Health Protection Agency (HPA) have launched a housing inspection aid to help reduce carbon monoxide poisoning. The one page checklist outlines key indicators of the possible presence of carbon monoxide and the symptoms in occupants that environmental health practitioners should look out for.

It's been over a year, and the pain is still very fresh for Ken and Kim Hansen. They lost their 16-year-old daughter, Amanda from carbon monoxide poisoning, while she was sleeping over at a friends house.

"People can recover from carbon monoxide poisoning if we can get to them quick enough." Jimmy Parks with Arkansas Children's Hospital says unfortunately that doesn't always happen, because carbon monoxide is a silent intruder.

The meeting was attended by a wide range of professionals, some of whom had traveled a long distance to attend. These included senior representatives of British Gas, the Gas Safe Register and manufacturers of alarms. Local representatives attended from the NHS, High Peak Community Housing, Derbyshire Fire Service, the Ambulance Service, Gas Care of Glossop, the Handy Van service and Digital Outreach. Councillors Caitlin Bisknell and Anthony Mckeown from High Peak Borough and David Wilcox from DCC were also present, as were members of the public including people bereaved by CO.

Gas cookers have been blamed for a significant rise in fatalities caused by carbon monoxide poisoning in Great Britain.

WEST SENECA, NY (WKBW) -- With the passing of the new 'Amanda's Law' in New York State, which requires all homes to have a working CO detector, a number of organizations are teaming up to distribute free detectors

The silent killer carbon monoxide may become less of a threat to personal safety if things go wrong in homes, offices and residential buildings with the development of a new detection system. Carbon Monoxide Alarms Ltd are pleased to announce they now stock the Flowtech Wireless Carbon Monoxide Detector...

Students and landlords are being warned of a silent killer as part of a campaign to cut the number of deaths from carbon monoxide poisoning.

Rosie Cooper MP has urged West Lancashire residents to protect themselves against the deadly threat of Carbon Monoxide poisoning.

A catalogue of errors in installing and maintaining a gas boiler caused a carbon monoxide leak that led to the deaths of two children, a court heard

The father of a teenage girl who died from carbon monoxide poisoning has backed an MP’s campaign to raise awareness of the ‘silent killer.’

A BABYSITTER has been taken to hospital with possible carbon monoxide poisoning.

The devastated parents of a newlywed who died from carbon monoxide poisoning have urged her friends to buy gas alarms in her memory to prevent further tragedy.

The frightening consequences of carbon monoxide poisoning led one sufferer to launch her own charity