日本水俣病发生后,引起了各国对环境汞污染的警惕和重视。但迄今,无论在国内还是在国外,汞污染的防治问题尚未彻底解决。由于工业含汞废水的不断排放和含汞农药的广泛应用等,使环境汞污染日趋严重。近年来,有些地区陆续有散在慢性甲基汞中毒的报道。鉴于此,许多毒理学家对人群长期接触低剂量汞所致慢性危害的易感性问题愈加重视。有的学者曾报道,当动物接触环境中相同污染水平的重金属时,幼年动物比成年动物具有更大的危险性。据此,本文仅把近期国外有关汞在幼年动物体内代谢的研究报道扼要综述如下。 After Minamata disease in Japan has aroused the vigilance and attention of all countries on environmental mercury pollution. However, up to now, the issue of prevention and control of mercury pollution has not yet been completely solved, both at home and abroad. As a result of the continuous discharge of industrial mercury-containing wastewater and the widespread use of mercury-containing pesticides, mercury pollution in the environment is becoming increasingly serious. In recent years, reports of chronic methylmercury poisoning have been reported in some areas. In view of this, many toxicologists pay more attention to the susceptibility of people to long-term exposure to chronic harm caused by low doses of mercury. Some scholars have reported that juvenile animals are more dangerous than adult animals when exposed to heavy metals of the same pollution level in the environment. Accordingly, this article only summarizes the recent research reports on the metabolism of mercury in juvenile animals in China.