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Mercury Contamination: A Growing Threat to Riverine and Urban Communities in the Brazilian Amazon

In recent decades, widespread and uncontrolled use of mercury (Hg) in artisanal small-scale gold mining has released thousands of tons of mercury-contaminated waste in the Amazon biome, endangering the largest tropical rainforest worldwide. In this study, we assessed and compared blood Hg levels in...

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Autores principales:	Meneses, Heloisa do Nascimento de Moura, Oliveira-da-Costa, Marcelo, Basta, Paulo Cesar, Morais, Cristiano Gonçalves, Pereira, Romulo Jorge Batista, de Souza, Suelen Maria Santos, Hacon, Sandra de Souza
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	MDPI 2022
Materias:	Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8910171/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35270508 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19052816

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