minamata disease

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A neurological syndrome caused by severe mercury poisoning
{i} form of mercury poisoning causing degenerative neurological disorder, disease caused by mercury contamination (by eating mercury-contaminated seafood)
Disease first identified in 1956 in Minamata, Japan. A fishing port, Minamata was also the home of Nippon Chisso Hiryo Co., a manufacturer of chemical fertilizer, carbide, and vinyl chloride. Methyl mercury discharged from the factory contaminated fish and shellfish, which in turn caused illness in the local inhabitants who consumed them and birth defects in their children. The sometimes fatal disease was the first whose cause was recognized as industrial pollution of seawater. It aroused worldwide concern and stimulated the development of the environmental movement
a form of mercury poisoning among people who ate fish from mercury-contaminated waters of Minamata Bay off Japan in the 1950s; characterized by severe neurological degeneration
minamata disease

    Расстановка переносов

    minamata dis·ease

    Синонимы

    chisso-minamata disease

    Произношение

    Этимология

    () Japanese 水俣病 (Minamata-byō); it was first discovered as a result of industrial pollution in Minamata city, Kumamoto prefecture, Japan in 1956.
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