Recent Evidence from Epidemiological Studies on Methylmercury Toxicity
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Recent evidence from epidemiological studies on methylmercury toxicity.
More than fifty years have passed since the outbreak of Minamata disease, and large-scale methylmercury poisoning due to industrial effluents or methylmercury-containing fungicide intoxication has scarcely happened in developed countries. On the other hand, widespread environmental mercury contamination has occurred in gold and mercury mining areas of developing countries. In this article, we p...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nippon Eiseigaku Zasshi (Japanese Journal of Hygiene)
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0021-5082,1882-6482
DOI: 10.1265/jjh.66.682