A Review of the Use of Mercury in Historic and Current Ritualistic and Spiritual Practices.
25/02/2014
In spite of the major efforts being undertaken to
reduce or eliminate the use of, and opportunities
for exposure to, mercury, its utilization in ethnomedical and magico-religious rituals and spiritual practices continues. Extensive educational and socio-cultural interventions aimed at curtailing these practices appear to lack significant effect. The adverse health effects of, and the environmental
contamination by, these uses of mercury likely will continue to present major personal, public, and environmental health challenges.
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