Bitter Sea: The Human Cost of Minamata Disease by Lester R. Brown, Akio Mishima

Bitter Sea: The Human Cost of Minamata Disease

Lester R. Brown, Akio Mishima

232 pages first pub 1992 (editions)

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The cause of Minamata disease—a fatal illness that attacks the nervous system—was first pinpointed in 1957 as organic mercury poisoning from effluent released by the Chisso Corp., a chemical manufacturer and the largest employer in the Japanese ci...

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