6 yrs later there are 30%
They can't blame this on coal fired power plants. Emission restrictions have increase.
The study suggests the levels in the atmosphere have increased greatly, and that's actually how it's getting into fish and shellfish.
I mean, a kid spills a little mercury at school, and the fire dept shows up and decontaminated the place.
A student at Denver's Lincoln High School brought mercury to school Wednesday, and had to be decontaminated by firefighters.
The incident happened around the lunch hour when the student spilled a trace amount inside the school, said Lt. Phil Champagne, a Denver Fire Department spokesman.
www.denverpost.com...
Doctors sure don't know where all those birth defects, stillborns, autism, downs syndrome is coming from.
In August 1996 Karen Wetterhahn, a chemistry professor at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, spilled a few drops of a laboratory compound called dimethyl mercury onto one of her hands. She was wearing latex lab gloves, so she didn’t think much of it. A colleague saw her at a conference the following November. “She said she thought she was coming down with the flu,” says toxicologist Vas Aposhian of the University of Arizona. By the time Wetterhahn was diagnosed with mercury poisoning, in January, it was too late. Despite subsequent treatment that helped clear the metal from her body, she lapsed into a vegetative state in February and died the following June.
Scientists are at a loss to explain why mercury often takes months to exert its effects. “If we knew that, we’d know a lot more about how mercury poisons the brain,” says Tom Clarkson, a toxicologist at the University of Rochester Medical Center.
mercuryexposure.org...
Flu like symptoms. Hmmm.
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