Minamata disease

Minamata disease is methylmercury poisoning caused by ingestion of fish and shellfish contaminated by mercury. Or a pregnant woman may have congenital leeches after eating seafood contaminated with methylmercury. It was named after it was first discovered in a fishing village near Minamata Bay in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan in 1953. It is a type of chronic mercury poisoning.

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