Health & Medicine

Awareness of the dangers of mercury analyzed by historian Vincent Barras

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23 February 2018

Vincent Barras

CHUV

Biologie et de médecine, UNIL

Awareness of the dangers associated with mercury at Lonza in Valais dates back to the 1930s. Yet it took decades for the state to react.

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