Magico-religious mercury exposure.
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Magico-religious mercury exposure.
Mark Wheeler's Focus article, "Measuring Mercury" (1), which appeared in the August 1996 issue of EHP, contained a serious omission. Wheeler concentrated on methyl mercury and, to a lesser extent, elemental mercury in dental amalgams. He failed to mention the relatively recently described but extremely significant exposures to elemental mercury in ethnically Hispanic and Caribbean homes, conseq...
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Health Perspectives
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0091-6765,1552-9924
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.105-1470007