Review of the nervous system andcardiovascular effects of methylmercury exposureDeborah C.
Rice, Ph.D .
Environmental and Occupational Health Program
Maine Center for Disease Control and PreventionAugusta, MEMarch 2006Report to the Illinois EPAIntroductionThe tragic outbreak of neurological disease in Minamata, Japan, in the late 1950s focusedattention on the potential for devastation by neurotoxic agents released into the environment.
Thousands of people were exposed and hundreds of people
became clinically ill during the years before and shortly after the hazard was recognized (WHO,1990).
In 1963-1965, another outbreak of methylmercury poisoning was identi...
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