Mining Exposes Indigenous Women In Latin America To Higher Mercury Levels
Children are most regularly exposed to mercury when it is mishandled or improperly cleaned up immediately after a spill. Broken thermometers, filled with tiny blobs of mercury, are the most frequent culprits. The higher school, in Avondale, Ariz., was shut down for a week so it could be decontaminated. The residences of six students have been tainted with mercury, two so severely that the households had to be relocated for…Read More