About The Word Minamata disease
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Minamata disease
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What's The Definition Of Minamata disease?
[n] 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
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