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Survey of the Extent of the Persisting Effects of Methylmercury Pollution on the Inhabitants around the Shiranui Sea, Japan

In 1956 methylmercury poisoning, known as Minamata disease, was discovered among the inhabitants around the Shiranui Sea, Kyushu, Japan. Although about five hundred thousand people living in the area had supposedly been exposed to methylmercury, administrative agencies and research institutes had no...

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Autores principales: Takaoka, Shigeru, Fujino, Tadashi, Kawakami, Yoshinobu, Shigeoka, Shin-ichi, Yorifuji, Takashi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6160922/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30037044
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/toxics6030039