In the 1950s and 1980s residents broke out because of the consumption of fish containing high levels of MeHg Minamata Disease caused by mercury, after increasing the danger to the world, which has been of concern to the mercury in the water body in the conduct and its eco-toxicological also...
Thank you for joining my class. In this lecture, I would like to discuss the issues of the so-called Minamata disease, which is a typical pollution-related disease caused by effluents containing mercury from chemical factories. In this class, I will call this disease MPM (an abbreviation of...
Minamata Bay- a bay on the west coast of Kyushu; in the 1950s industrial wastes caused mercury poisoning among the Japanese people who ate fish from Minamata Bay Kyushu- the southernmost of the four main islands of Japan; contains coal fields ...
2. History and Background of Minamata Disease The epidemic of methylmercury intoxication that occurred in Minamata area, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, is known as "Minamata disease". It was the first experience of severe methylmercury poisoning caused by anthropogenic environmental pollution [10]. The ...