A study of mercury contamination in a southeastern Peruvian jungle area ravaged by illegal gold mining found unsafe levels of the toxic metal in 78% of adults in the regional capital and in 60% of fish sold at markets
Mercury contamination from illegal gold mining in Peru’s Amazon mounting health threat
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