A child abuse fatality occurs when a child's death is the result of abuse or neglect, or when abuse and/or neglect are contributing factors to a child's death. In the United States, 1,730 children died in 2008 due to factors related to abuse; this is a rate of 2 per 100,000 U.S. children.
The kind of mercury that accumulates to toxic levels in fish is called monomethylmercury, or simply methylmercury, because it has a methyl group, CH3, attached to the mercury atom. The problem is that we donât know where methylmercury comes from.
1 Exposure to mercury â even small amounts â may cause serious health problems, and is a threat to the development of the child in utero and early in life. 2  Mercury may have toxic effects on the nervous, digestive and immune systems, and on lungs, kidneys, skin and eyes.