Report “Mercury Exposure of Women in four Latin American Gold Mining Countries” reveals that 66.8% of the indigenous examined presented harmful levels of the metal

 

• The women of the Bolivian indigenous Eyiyo Quibo and Portachuelo people had, by far, the highest levels of mercury...As these were indigenous women who do not engage in gold mining and have fish as the mainstay of their diet, it is clear that their very high mercury levels arise from consuming contaminated fish of the Beni River system
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