Seventy years have passed since Minamata disease was officially confirmed.The title of the first report, dated May 4, 1956, from the Minamata Public Health Center in Kumamoto Prefecture to the prefectural health director, was "On a strange pediatric illness occurring near the Tsukinoura district of Minamata." People who developed the disease while inside their mothers' wombs are now around 70 years old and struggling to live. But there has been no systematic and sustained study of the victims in this generation, making an urgent investigation to clarify what happened essential.To consider t…READ FULL ARTICLE
