The Minamata Disaster | The town that was poisoned

It all started with the neighbourhood cats. The people of Minamata, Japan, began to notice their cats were going insane and falling into the sea in the mid-1950s.

Soon after, a strange illness began to spread throughout the town. Minamata residents complained of numbness in their limbs and lips. Some people had trouble hearing or seeing. Others experienced tremors in their arms and legs, walking difficulties, and even brain damage. And, like the cats, some people appeared to be going insane, screaming out of control. Something was causing their nervous system to malfunction.

Finally, in July1959, Kumamoto University researchers discovered the cause of the illness: high levels of mercury poisoning, which they dubbed Minamata disease. But how were all of these people (and cats) poisoned in the first place? This is the story of the Minamata disaster.

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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7734058/
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