Re:Steve Wozniak remembers the early days [video]
by vinbreau on Thursday December 04, 2014 @04:41PM
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It made me uncomfortable as well. I actually knew a girl who willfully ingested a troublesome amount of mercury in high school. Her children have visible birth defects now.
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Re:Steve Wozniak remembers the early days [video]
by lectrick on Thursday December 04, 2014 @10:07PM
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That doesn't make sense unless she took the mercury while she was pregnant
Re:Steve Wozniak remembers the early days [video]
by adventured on Thursday December 04, 2014 @11:10PM
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Lacking a specific understanding of mercury's interaction with the body, can mercury be retained in the body for extremely long periods of time, and can it cause damage to the DNA that would lead to birth defects in children?
Re:Steve Wozniak remembers the early days [video]
by CapitalistCartr on Friday December 05, 2014 @09:16AM
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In Minamata, Japan there was a bad mercury release in the 50s, into the bay, resulting in Minamata disease.
"In Minamata, Japan, pregnant women who consumed the contaminated fish manifested mild or no symptoms but gave birth to infants with severe developmental disabilities, including cerebral palsy, mental retardation, and seizures."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamata,_Kumamoto
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/113/Supplement...