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| | Chapter - 4 Minamata disease |
 | | During the early 1960s, then, the problems related to the Minamata disease were thought to be things of the past, and no more attention was paid to the particular issues involved. | | | The government's Ministry of Social Welfare established a Minamata Disease Patient Examination Council, composed of selected medical practitioners, in order that patients could be screened so as to qualify for company-provided compensation. | | | At this point efforts at determining the cause of the disease were handed over to a medical research group at Kumamoto University in Kyushu. |
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http://www.unu.edu/unupress/unupbooks/uu35ie/uu35ie0c.htm
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| | Mercury-poisoned waters of Minamata unleashed sickness of society's fabric |
| | During all the years outsiders studied Minamata, she explains, they focused on the town's betrayal by industry and by Japan's government. | | | But part of the response to Minamata Disease was typically Japanese, George says. | | | Part of what was happening reflected human nature, a reflexive fear of mysterious illness that occurs anywhere. |
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http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/page1/98/02/15/minamata.html
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| | Minimata Bay Mercury Victims Could Double Hans Grimel / AP 10oct01 |
| | MR imaging of Minamata disease: qualitative and quantitative analysis. | | | A short history of Minamata disease research and the present situation of mercury pollution in Japan. | | | Causes of death in Minamata disease: analysis of death certificates. |
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| | The Poisoning of Minamata |
| | In the Japanese view of medicine, the condition of the body reflects how the individual has maintained his or her balance with the external world--and sickness can be viewed as something "deserved." The victims were thus often implicitly "blamed" for their own condition. | | | Students may be guided in developing this concept on their own. | | | But one must not fail to appreciate the historical context in which neither scientific experience nor a pervasive environmental awareness could offer such an explicit warning. |
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http://www.umn.edu/ships/ethics/minamata.htm
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| | Minamata Disease and the Mercury Pollution of the Globe |
| | Nevertheless, Minamata Disease was not found out in the author and others’ clinical examination carried out until 1994. | | | In Japan, it is an old custom that the umbilical cords of newly-born children are preserved by their parents in memory of their birth. | | | Song Zeng Ren: Epidemiological research on the health effect of residents along the Sonhua River polluted by methylmercury. |
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http://www.einap.org/envdis/Minamata.html
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| | Japan Focus Article |
| | Minamata disease was above all a disease of the spirit to which Japan succumbed as growth, money, material wealth come to be valued above the natural environment or humanity. | | | There is still no consensus on what it is exactly that constitutes Minamata Disease. | | | A treatment has yet to be found for Minamata disease. |
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| | eMedicine - Toxicity, Mercury : Article by David K Tan, MD, FAAEM |
| | After initial assessment and stabilization of the patient's condition, eliminate the patient's exposure to the source of the mercury. | | | Severe poisoning eventually causes the patient to lie in a mute semirigid posture that is broken only by episodes of crying or primitive reflexive movements. | | | Compared with other patients, babies exposed to Minamata disease in utero have a more dismal prognosis. |
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| | Augusta Georgia: technology@ugusta: Mercury poison still haunts city 07/20/98 |
| | ``If the same thing happened again, people would be able to sue not only for physical damage, but for the psychological pain that was inflicted,'' said Dr. Hiroyuki Moriyama, director of a clinic that cares for bedridden Minamata victims. | | | ``There's a silent majority that would like everybody to stop talking about Minamata disease,'' he said. | | | What he found there was worse: constant bullying and physical assaults by schoolmates who would mimic the jerky movements of Minamata disease sufferers. |
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http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/072098/tec_124-5932.shtml
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| | Mercury Poisoning (Technical Report) |
| | Virtually no cats to be found in Minamata, Japan as of 1958. | | | Public education and awareness must also be addressed if we are to have any hopes of avoiding a similar disaster like the one that took place in Minamata, Japan. | | | Soon after her diagnosis, many more children began to demonstrate symptoms of the strange disease; babies were born with it and eventually adults started to show the same symptoms. |
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| | Minamata disease - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | They not only wanted equal and sufficient compensation, but also for Chisso to publicly accept responsibility for the Minamata disease. | | | The physicians were puzzled by the symptoms the patients held in common: severe convulsions, bouts of psychosis, loss of consciousness and coma. | | | During these negotiations and also talks of a compensation advance, 29 more patients were diagnosed with Minamata disease. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamata_disease
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| | Minamata: Real Life Horror Show by Mike Rogers |
| | Cats and dogs began to exhibit inexplicable behavior. | | | Minamata disease is one from which there is no possibility of recovery. | | | It is a disease for which there is no cure. |
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| | Univ 113 Paper 2 |
| | Chisso’s negligence could have been easily prevented had the local government been aware of the company’s waste disposal technique and acted against it. | | | Doctors did not recognize the disease as something new until May 1956, when four patients suffering from common symptoms were admitted to the Minamata city hospital. | | | The effects of Minamata disease, which originated in Minamata, Japan, first came to the attention of local fishermen. |
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| | Selection of articles on the alledged poisonings at Buyat Bay in Indonesia |
| | The disease has simply destroyed his arms," said Jufria, showing Kris' red, blotchy shoulders. | | | The four people who claimed to be suffering from Minamata disease only had skin ailments, he said. | | | According to Dr. Jein Pangemanan, symptoms of this disease begin with a rash and tremors followed by tumours. |
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| | Mercury in the Umbilical Cord: Implications for Risk Assessment for Minamata Disease |
| | Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) is a monthly journal of peer-reviewed research and news on the impact of the environment on human health. | | | However, misclassification of Minamata disease in patients with spastic paresis of other etiology, for example, may have played a role in this regard. | | | In this regard, the considerable variation in cord mercury concentrations from Minamata patients is noteworthy; some of the patients had very low concentrations of mercury that were similar to those seen in the control groups. |
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| | UCLA International Institute :: Making Up for Minamata |
| | Kanai explained that, with medical bills and sick family members to take care of, some victims needed aid immediately. | | | This was the first thing that the people of Minamata, Japan, observed in 1955—before their neighbors began acting erratically as well. | | | Because it is fiction, however, some critics say that the book is not a reliable source to draw on. |
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| | Amazon.ca: Bitter Sea: The Human Cost of Minamata Disease: Books |
| | In this area the book does a very thorough job. | | | Still the book is very good and largely does what the author intended - to show both the suffering of the Minamata disease victims, as well as the extreme corperate irresponsiblity that led to so much human suffering and destruction of the environment. | | | For those interested in a historical event which had a great effect on the environmental movement, as well as our understanding of how pollutnants can move through the foodchain the ultamately effect human health, I recommend the book. |
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| | Mercury Poisoning: The Legacy of Minamata, Japan |
| | Minamata Disease is a severe neurological disorder that causes congenital and chronic effects in its victims. | | | Cerebral damage is similar to that observed in patients with | | | The leading cause of death among chronic Minamata Disease patients who died from 1975 to 1982 |
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| | eMedicine - Mercury : Article by David A Olson, MD |
| | Chelation therapy of patients with symptoms attributed to amalgam fillings. | | | Charcot JM: Clinical lectures of diseases of the nervous system. | | | Interestingly, investigators of Minamata disease identified chronic forms of the disease in which hair mercury levels were not elevated. |
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| | UNSW Embryo- Mercury Poisoning Selected References |
| | The neuropathology of Minamata disease has been well studied; this review focuses on human cases of Minamata disease in Kumamoto Prefecture. | | | The clinical features were found to be essentially the same as those of Hunter Russell syndrome; however, some additional symptoms were also found. | | | Nervous system lesions associated with Minamata disease have a characteristic distribution. |
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| | Association for Asia Research- Getting over Minimata Disease |
| | The city has created the "Environment Minamata Award, " and certifies people who have created eco-friendly and health-conscious products as "Environment Masters." Local study groups that monitor what is happening in their immediate community have also been promoted. | | | Because of the delay in implementing measures to combat Minamata Disease, the number of patients multiplied. | | | During this period, fish catches drastically decreased and the number of Minamata disease patients spiked. |
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| | Agricultural Teratogens Page |
| | In 1955 in the Minamata Bay area of Kyushu, Japan, there was a large influx of cases of severe neurological disorders in newborn children. | | | Children with Congential Minamata Syndrome seem to be normal at birth and begin to present symptoms at approximately six months of age. | | | There were cases of cerebral palsy, some children were diplegic and others were tetraplegic. |
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| | BBC NEWS Health Mercury poisoning disease re-emerges |
| | Minamata disease causes serious damage to the nervous system, resulting in uncontrollable shaking and muscle wasting. | | | A debilitating illness of the nervous system caused by mercury poisoning has re-emerged, scientists have warned. | | | Maszumi Harada, an expert on the disease from Kumamoto University, examined 50 people from ten villages around San Luis do Tapajós who had high levels of methyl mercury in their bodies. |
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| | TEN THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT MINAMATA DISEASE |
| | Minamata disease shows us that we must not ignore the past, and the more we study and learn about it, the more it teaches us lessons about living, such as the value of the environment and health. | | | So that the tragedy of Minamata disease will never be repeated, we have prepared answers to some of the most common questions about Minamata disease. | | | We will be gratified if this pamphlet helps to improve understanding of Minamata disease. |
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| | MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Motormental retardation |
| | other heritable disorders -- Tay-Sachs disease, Aicardi syndrome, Niemann-Pick disease. | | | Motormental retardation may also develop AFTER birth with deterioration of both mental and motor function related to disease or accident. | | | Infants can be born with conditions that cause mental retardation and delayed or absent motor development. |
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| | Minamata disease - definition of Minamata disease by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. |
| | This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. | | | Minamata disease - 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 - definition of Minamata disease by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. |
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| | Quit Smoking - Nicotine Poisoning |
| | Health Encyclopedia - Diseases and Conditions - Symptoms, Treatment and Prev... | | | Conducts medical research to improve medical treatment for victims of Minamata disease (methylmercury poisoning) in Kumamoto&; one of Japan's worst chemical poisoning disasters. | | | Conducts medical research to improve treatment for victims of Minamata disease (methylmercury poisoning) in Kumamoto&; one of Japan's worst chemical poisoning disasters. |
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| | Hazard Cards - Minamata |
| | A course in the epidemology of the Minamata Disease: | | | The strategy of the Chisso Cooperation had been clear from the beginning: rather than implementing a sustainable environmental behaviour, they would provide small economic compensations to those affected by the pollution. | | | Case Study on Minamata from the Trade and Environment Database (TED): |
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| | Minamata Program Notes |
| | about some crazy diseased cats and Japanese people. | | | It was Hosokawa and his laboratory cat tests, that proved | | | Disease," as the animals went screaming, treading spastically, |
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| | MSN Encarta - Sidebar - Minamata Disease Victims |
| | In the 1950s, residents of Minamata, Japan, began experiencing unusual symptoms, including numbness, vision problems, and convulsions. | | | In 1997, after a massive cleanup, Japan announced that the bay had been cleared of the contaminant. | | | MSN Encarta - Sidebar - Minamata Disease Victims |
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| | AllRefer Health - Methylmercury Poisoning (Minamata Bay Disease) |
| | You are here : AllRefer.com > Health > Diseases and Conditions > Methylmercury Poisoning | | | Outbreaks of methylmercury poisoning have occurred following ingestion of treated seed grain, meat from animals fed treated seedgrain, or fish from waters contaminated with methylmercury, such as Minamata Bay in Japan. | | | AllRefer Health - Methylmercury Poisoning (Minamata Bay Disease) |
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| | Minamata, Kumamoto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Minamata (水俣市; -shi) is a city located in Kumamoto, Japan. | | | As of 2003, the city has an estimated population of 30,080 and the density of 184.69 persons per km². | | | The city is best known as the former site of an environmental disaster caused by industrial pollution of the bay with mercury; see Minamata disease. |
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| | Find in a Library: Paradise in the sea of sorrow : our Minamata disease |
| | Paradise in the sea of sorrow : our Minamata disease | | | Find in a Library: Paradise in the sea of sorrow : our Minamata disease | | | WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries. |
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