Mercury poisoning can be found almost anywhere, including places considered remote, like the Amazon River basin in Brazil.

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Study results showed that sharks have developed a way to prevent toxic mercury poisoning in their unborn pups.

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Strip mines, mountaintop removal, polluted watersheds, Black Lung, mercury poisoning, airborne lead and other toxic pollutants, and acid rain.

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He is very concerned that the FDA is not paying close enough attention to the important health issues relating to mercury poisoning.

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Though not a doctor or a nurse, she wore a white coat and told him that he was indeed suffering from lead and mercury poisoning.

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The other sector of commerce affected by the new study is the fishing industry, since it is their product that is implicated as the main mode of mercury poisoning.

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But I will not back down from making sure an oil company can contain the kind of oil spill we saw in the Gulf two years ago. (Applause.) I will not back down from protecting our kids from mercury poisoning, or making sure that our food is safe and our water is clean.

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His belief in invisible forces owed much to alchemy, a passion in which he dabbled to the end of his life, slowly poisoning himself by handling mercury.

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