Despite high health risks, women reluctant to abandon trade in gold

• The effects of mercury poisoning are so dire that some women bear children impaired by heavy metal. Stillbirths are also common in the area.
• Some children are born healthy but are later affected by prolonged exposure to mercury fumes.
• IPEN, a global network of organisations working towards the elimination of toxic chemicals, which found that the use of mercury by pregnant women posed serious and substantial threats to their health and to babies in utero.
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