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Minimata disease


Minimata disease

[‚min·ē′mäd·ə di‚zēz] (medicine) A disorder resulting from methyl mercury poisoning, which occurred in epidemic proportions in 1956 in Minimata Bay, a Japanese coastal town, where the inhabitants ate fish contaminated by industrial pollution; the most obvious symptoms are tremors and involuntary movements.

Minimata disease


A disease caused by consumption of fish and shellfish contaminated with organic methylmercury—inorganic mercury, a major teratogen discharged into nearby rivers by industrial plants that produce acetaldehyde, using mercury as a catalyst

Minimata disease

An epidemic of neurological disorders that occurred in Minimata, Japan, in 1953–56, and was eventually shown to be caused by MERCURY POISONING from contact with the effluent from a PVC factory.
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