A Woman Put Mercury Skin Cream On Her Face. This Is What Happened To Her Brain.

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MMWR 2019: Methylmercury Toxicity from a Skin Lightening Cream. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/w...

Mercury Poisoning Linked to Skin Products. https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consume...

Clinical management of chronic mercury intoxication secondary to skin lightening products: A proposed algorithm. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

Minamata Disease The History and Measures. https://www.env.go.jp/en/chemi/hs/min...

Methylmercury poisoning: Long-term clinical, radiological, toxicological, and pathological studies of an affected family. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1994-4...