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The chemical Mercury is very dangerous to your health. Exposure to mercury can cause harmful effects, such as nerve, brain and kidney damage, lung irritation, eye irritation, skin rashes, vomiting and diarrhea. Coming into contact with mercury is foolish because of all it can do to the human body.

Mercury has a number of effects on humans, that can all of them be simplified into the following main effects:

- Disruption of the nervous system

- Damage to brain functions

- DNA damage and chromosomal damage

- Allergic reactions, resulting in skin rashes, tiredness and headaches

- Negative reproductive effects, such as sperm damage, birth defects and miscarriages

Damaged brain functions can cause degradation of learning abilities, personality changes, tremors, vision changes, deafness, muscle incoordination and memory loss. Chromosomal damage is known to cause mongolism.

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