The dangerous mercury poisoning that caused the contamination of fish in Japan's Minamata city in the 1950s and 60s is likely to hit the villages around goldmines in Senegal, going by the findings of a Duke University study.
Minamata disease or mercury poisoning was first discovered in 1956, caused by the release of methylmercury from the Chisso Corporation's chemical factory. Accumulated in shellfish and fish in Minamata Bay and Shiranui Sea and consumed by the local people, it had a devastating effect reaching the scale of an outbreak by the mid-1960s.
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