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Are children more sensitive to mercury exposure effects than adults?

April 26, 2017adults children exposure mercury sensitive

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Are children more sensitive to mercury exposure effects than adults?

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Yes. Unborn infants and baby are up to 4x more sensitive to the same amount of mercury exposure. Even when pregnant mothers who are exposed to small doses of mercury do not show any symptoms of mercury poisoning, their borned infants will most likely show some symptoms.