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What happened in minamata?

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Minamata, Japan was the site of one of the worst Mercury pollution disasters in history. The Chisso Corporation's chemical factory dumped their methylmercury wastewater into the Minamata Bay. The mercury, through the process of bioaccumulation, ended up in the top fish species, which the Minamata population ate for food. This resulted in thousands suffering from acute mercury poisoning. While many went through neurological breakdown, for years, neither the government nor the company did anything about it. Reparations and cleanup are still an ongoing process, several decades later.

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The Minamata Disaster was the dumping of Methyl Mercury into Minamata bay by Chisso Co. Ltd. It caused fish to die, cats to develop stange behaviour and finally, Humans seemed to take on the same behaviour: not being able to walk properly, difficulty using their hands and many other symtoms. People begun to know this as th "Minamata Disease"

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The minamata bay disaster is referring to the minamata disease. This was caused by chemical waste dumped in Minamata bay by the Chisso company in Japan. This chemical waste contained methyl mercury which is highly dangerous. The fish in the bay ate this waste then it worked itself up the food chain until it eventually affected humans.

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