Notes On Japanese Pollution Diseases

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Ghinzu river

Kamioka mine 1589


1880s industrialization
Biggest smelter of lead
Byproduct sulfuric acid

Itai-itai
it hurts it hurts
Malnutrition + cadmium in drinking water

Minamata city
1908
Nitrogenous fertilizer
1954 unknown epileptic condition
Mercury poisons central nervous system
Intake of seafood
Experiments on cats

Yokkaichi city
Yokkaichi asthma
Petroleum
1958
Fish smells oil
1960
Asthma like symptoms
Bronchial tumors
Sulfur oxides and other polluting substances

Agano river

Organic mercury poisoning

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