Congenital
Minamata disease: a description of two cases in Niigata
(pp 134-137)
Hisashi
Saito, MD.
Kido
Hospital, Niigata, Japan.
Abstract
Minamata
disease or methyl mercury poisoning from industrial pollution was first
described from Minamata, Japan in the 1950s. Subsequently, a similar
poisoning episode occurred at Niigata, Japan in the 1960s. This paper
describes the Minamata event and then presents two case reports believed
to be prenatal poisoning from consumption of contaminated fish at Niigata.
Case number one is of special interest because it is the only subject with
congenital Minamata disease for whom exposure was actually measured near
the time of birth.
Key
words
mercury, methyl mercury, Minamata disease, fish consumption, prenatal
poisoning
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