Niigata, June 1 (Jiji Press)--A ceremony to mark the 60th anniversary of the official recognition of Niigata Minamata disease, a neurological disorder caused by polluted industrial wastewater ...

A major Japanese tutoring company has recently apologized for inaccurately describing the Minamata mercury-poisoning disease as hereditary in its online study material, a description that drew strong ...

Shintaro Ito met with Minamata disease patients in Kumamoto and Kagoshima prefectures on July 8, 10 and 11 in a trip arranged after his ministry came under fire for cutting short a previous ...

Hundreds of people prayed for the victims of Minamata disease in a ceremony in southwestern Japan on Thursday, 69 years after the neurological disorder caused by polluted industrial wastewater was ...

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THE DISEASE IS RARE, BUT IT CAN CAUSE SEVERE PNEUMONIA THAT CAN LEAD TO DEATH. STATE HEALTH OFFICIALS SAY THE PERSON WHO GOT SICK ACQUIRED THE DISEASE WHILE THEY WERE A PATIENT AT BETH ISRAEL ...

Minamata disease is methylmercury poisoning that leads to neurological symptoms. The condition develops after a person has been eating heavily contaminated seafood daily. The first record of ...

Dr. Myro Figura (@doctormyro) and Dr. Dana Brems (@footdocdana) posted a TikTok video reacting to a seemingly clean hand being put under a microscope ... The Centers for Disease Control ...

At least 50 000 people were affected to some extent and more than 2000 cases of Minamata disease were identified ... to mercury in any of its forms under different circumstances.

Kumamoto Prefecture and Chisso Corp., after they were denied benefits under the special measures law to provide relief for Minamata disease victims, which came into effect in 2009. The Osaka ...

we got to see what the Minamata disease is in our eyes, and we committed to develop an instrument of a global importance that could really provide solutions.” “Minamata changed the way we ...