Women in small-island states exposed to high levels of mercury: study

Mongabay
Nov 27, 2018, 11:03 am68 pts
Women of childbearing age from small-island states and countries have been found to have toxic levels of mercury, a potent neurotoxin that can harm unborn children, a new report shows. The study took hair samples from 757 women between the ages of 18 and 44 years from across the Pacific, the Caribbean and the…

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