Health-care and puncture workers will this week start providing medical and food assist for 25 influenced villages, after a flurry of studies showed high levels of mercury in people, fish and sediments in a Madre de Dios region. The supervision estimates that some 48,000 people opposite 85,301 retard kilometres have been affected.
“We now know with certainty what a source of a bearing is,” says Peru’s emissary health minister, Percy Minaya. “We are not going to solve this in dual months, or even in a year, though a Health Ministry has to start.” Symptoms of mercury poisoning embody queasiness and diarrhoea. Extreme cases can lead to mind or kidney damage.
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