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ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL
Volume 36, Issue 6, Pages 593-608Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2010.03.011
Keywords
Mercury; Tapajos; Amazon; Methylmercury; Contamination; Intoxication
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- Agencia Espanola de Cooperacion Internacional (AECI) [A/556/06 BOE 10 enero 2007]
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This paper presents a review about mercury contamination and human exposure in the Tapajos River basin (Brazil), one of the major tributaries of the Amazon impacted by traditional gold mining from the mid 1980s. The most recent review in this region was published more than ten years ago and since then many articles about environment and especially human populations have revealed new aspects of mercury toxicology. Additionally, new biomarkers of mercury exposure and toxicity have been studied in these populations. However, there are still many open, about both mercury's biogeochemical cycle and mercury health risks. Further environmental and human risk research directions are proposed. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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