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Mode of the Disease

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This disease can be clearly distinguished from traditional industrial mercury poisoning. It took 12 long years to reach an official conclusion as to the cause of this disease from the first outbreak. This is because scientific knowledge about and experience with transmission of mercury compounds up the food chain in those days were very limited, as were the techniques for analyzing very small concentrations of methylmercury.
In 1968, the government sorted out all the knowledge related to Minamata disease that had been gathered up to that time, and announced its view point.
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