{"id":6515,"date":"2019-11-12T09:36:05","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T06:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6515"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:40","slug":"why-mercury-still-poses-important-threats-to-human-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/11\/12\/why-mercury-still-poses-important-threats-to-human-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Mercury Still Poses Important Threats To Human Health"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By UN Environment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\nJuly, a 47-year-old woman showed up at the emergency department of her local\nhospital in Sacramento, California. Her speech was slurred, she couldn\u2019t walk, and\nshe was unable to feel her hands or face. The woman soon fell into a coma,\nwhere she remained for several weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\ncause of the woman\u2019s desperate condition, health officials soon discovered, was\na skin-lightening ingredient\u2014mercury\u2014that had been illegally mixed into her pot\nof face cream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMercury poisoning has dangerous and sometimes irreversible effects, and while unborn babies are most vulnerable, anyone can suffer,\u201d said Claudia ten Have, Senior Policy Coordination Officer at the Minamata Convention Secretariat. As the case of the Sacramento woman makes clear, the toxic heavy metal can pose serious health threats in developing as well as developed countries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/why-mercury-still-poses-important-threats-human-health\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UN Environment In July, a 47-year-old woman showed up at the emergency department of her local hospital in Sacramento, California. Her speech was slurred, she couldn\u2019t walk, and she&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}