The impact of mercury on human health and the environment.

Author: Hyman MH.

Source: Tulane Univeristy School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine

Year: 2004

Comment:

This article recognizes human health hazards of dental amalgam mercury.

Abstract / Excerpt:

“The city of New Orleans was spared the wrath of hurricane Ivan. Yet, a week later, the eye of a different kind of storm stirred at the edge of the Mississippi, a muddy and polluted river, emblematic of our self-inflicted health crisis affecting children and the elderly, from autism to Alzheimer’s disease. A unique international group of policymakers, environmental scientists, toxicologists, biochemists, journalists, academic physicians, practicing pediatricians, neurologists, and dentists gathered to make sense of the environmental impact, toxicology, basic science, public policy, and health implications of one of the least studied and perhaps greatest potential threats to our long-term health—mercury.”

Citation:

Hyman, M. The impact of mercury on human health and the environment. In Tulane Univeristy School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. General Meeting. Tulane Univeristy, New Orleans. 2004; 23.