Mercury is particularly insidious because it stays afloat and it can be spread globally.

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The accuser said that she does not remember being photographed as she was carried by Mays and Ma'Lik Richmond, an image that stirred up outrage, first locally, then globally, as it spread online.

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"We're now so profoundly interconnected that it will be the case things will enter into the human population and will spread globally, " said Wolfe.

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