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Methylmercury neurotoxicity in Amazonian children downstream from gold mining.
In widespread informal gold mining in the Amazon Basin, mercury is used to capture the gold particles as amalgam. Releases of mercury to the environment have resulted in the contamination of freshwater fish with methylmercury. In four comparable Amazonian communities, we examined 351 of 420 eligible...
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| Lenguaje: | English |
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1999
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1566671/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10379006 |