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Further, although large quantities of mercury are clearly toxic to the brain, autism isn't a consequence of mercury poisoning; large, single-source mercury exposures in Minamata Bay and Iraq caused seizures, mental retardation, and speech delay, but not autism.
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Mercury poisoning is a sensitive topic in Japan, where a disorder now called Minamata
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By October, this mysterious new contagion had stricken forty Minamata residents, fourteen of whom had died, which made for a mortality rate several times higher than that of most cancers—and still, investigators remained stumped.
The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011
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Vaccinologists also knew that ethylmercury—the form present in vaccines—was less toxic than methylmercury, which caused the tragedies in Minamata and Iraq and was the subject of the studies in the Seychelles and the Faroe Islands.30
The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011
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That spring, a five-year-old girl was admitted to a hospital in Minamata, the largest city on Kyushu, the southernmost of the four main islands of Japan.
The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011
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Vaccinologists also knew that ethylmercury—the form present in vaccines—was less toxic than methylmercury, which caused the tragedies in Minamata and Iraq and was the subject of the studies in the Seychelles and the Faroe Islands.30
The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011
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The more local officials investigated, the more it seemed as if Minamata had been cursed with an otherworldly plague.
The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011
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By October, this mysterious new contagion had stricken forty Minamata residents, fourteen of whom had died, which made for a mortality rate several times higher than that of most cancers—and still, investigators remained stumped.
The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011
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That spring, a five-year-old girl was admitted to a hospital in Minamata, the largest city on Kyushu, the southernmost of the four main islands of Japan.
The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011
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The more local officials investigated, the more it seemed as if Minamata had been cursed with an otherworldly plague.
The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011
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