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Hutukara Associação Yanomami

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Measuring Mercury in Their Own Hair

Fresh Water

🇧🇷 Brazil

Illegal gold miners use mercury to bind the gold, the rivers carry it into the fish, and the Yanomami eat the fish — so the association measured its own people's hair to prove it.

84percentHair samples above 2.0 µg/g of mercury
10.8percentSamples above the 6.0 µg/g level needing clinical attention
2,004yearYear the association was created
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