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Terrifying cases of mercury poisoning in history
Thousands of years ago, people knew mercury. At that time, the Chinese and Indians believed that mercury was a kind of medicine that helped people to live immortality, h…
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The most terrible strange disease of Japanese history due to the release of mercury into the sea
In 1932 the Japanese Chisso Corporation discharged mercury-contaminated wastewater to Minamata Sea caused a massive death of fish and shrimp, people ate fish that had be…