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.
Mercury is a neurotoxinneurotoxinA substance that is known or suspected to be poisonous to nerve tissue.. 1  How someone's health may be affected by an exposure to mercury depends on a number of factors: 2  the form of mercury (for example, methylmercury or elemental (metallic) mercury) 3  the amount of mercury in the exposure;