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Mercury Causes Irreparable Brain Damage in Kids

  • February 08, 2004

Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health, showed that children exposed to mercury in the womb may suffer permanent damage to their heart function. The researchers examined more than 1,000 mothers and children living in Denmark's Faroe Islands. Residents there eat large amounts of fish, much of which is contaminated with mercury. The children had been exposed to mercury both prenatally and after they were born. The researchers put electrodes on the heads of the children to...