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Blog / The Legacy of Minamata Disease

March 2, 2017 / Melissa Plooster /

During the 1950s, strange events began happening around Minamata Bay, located in the Kumamoto Prefecture of Japan. Fish floated belly-up and birds collapsed while flying. Cats convulsed, salivated excessively, jumped…

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