{"id":77432,"date":"2025-07-15T09:54:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T09:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=77432"},"modified":"2025-07-15T09:54:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T09:54:39","slug":"ghana-study-flags-heavy-metal-contamination-in-keta-lagoon-fish-high-cancer-risk-for-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/07\/15\/ghana-study-flags-heavy-metal-contamination-in-keta-lagoon-fish-high-cancer-risk-for-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana study flags heavy metal contamination in Keta Lagoon fish, high cancer risk for children"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gumlet.assettype.com\/downtoearth%2F2025-07-14%2F2f21hv94%2FKetaLagoon-1.jpg?w=480&amp;auto=format%2Ccompress&amp;fit=max\" alt=\"Keta Lagoon, also known as Anlo-Keta lagoon, is the largest of over 90 lagoons that stretch along Ghana's 550-kilometre coastline.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Children in communities around Ghana\u2019s Keta Lagoon face a high risk of cancer from consuming locally caught fish contaminated with dangerous levels of mercury and arsenic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/africa\/ghana-study-flags-heavy-metal-contamination-in-keta-lagoon-fish-high-cancer-risk-for-children\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Children in communities around Ghana\u2019s Keta Lagoon face a high risk of cancer from consuming locally caught fish contaminated with dangerous levels&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-77432","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/keta-lagoon.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77434,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77432\/revisions\/77434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}