• What’s behind the alarming rise in birth defects in Brazil’s illegal gold mining capital?

    What’s behind the alarming rise in birth defects in Brazil’s illegal gold mining capital?
    In Pará state children are being born with neurological disorders. Experts note similarities to the mercury poisoning disaster in Minamata, Japan – but say that is not the whole storySeven-year-old Valdenisa squealed with delight as she grasped the tape measure above her head. It was part of a game so that a doctor could measure the circumference of her head and check her withered legs.She was one of a dozen Indigenous Munduruku children being examined by a trio of child neurologist

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