Health Sciences 3290A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Mercury Poisoning, Asubpeeschoseewagong First Nation, Miscarriage
12 Nov 2016
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Symptoms are now so persuasive that it almost seems normal to some people. Most population have sensory disorders which are a typical sign of poisoning. 90% of population have the problem so it seems normal. This is not normal for it to be in the young generation. They need canadian doctors who live in canada to look at the lives of these people and their disease and do the testing regularly instead of the japanese team only coming a few times per years. There are hundreds of cases here of the autoimmune disease. Collaboration could bring more evidence of the incident to light. There was a paper plant upstream from this community and in the 60/70s they were dumping chemicals from the paper mill into the water. Minamata disease named after the case of minamata in japan in the 60s which was a case of mercury contamination. The effects that it had on health were then named minamata disease.
