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Mercury poisoning is a type of metal poisoning due to exposure to mercury. [3] Symptoms depend upon the type, dose, method, and duration of exposure. [3] [4] They may include muscle weakness, poor coordination, numbness in the hands and feet, skin rashes, anxiety, memory problems, trouble speaking, trouble hearing, or trouble seeing. [1]
Minamata disease (Japanese: 水俣病, Hepburn: Minamata-byō) is a neurological disease caused by severe mercury poisoning.Signs and symptoms include ataxia, numbness in the hands and feet, general muscle weakness, loss of peripheral vision, and damage to hearing and speech.
Niigata Minamata disease (新潟水俣病, Niigata Minamata-byō) is a neurological syndrome caused by severe mercury poisoning.Identical in symptoms to the original outbreak of Minamata disease in Kumamoto Prefecture, the second outbreak in Niigata Prefecture was confirmed with the same name in 1965.
Acrodynia is a medical condition which occurs due to mercury poisoning. The condition of pain and dusky pink discoloration in the hands and feet is due to exposure or ingesting of mercury . It was known as pink disease (due to these symptoms) before it was accepted that it was just mercury poisoning. [ 1 ]
According to the New York Times, the centres director, Masanori Hanada, could not understand why in 2014—decades after the mercury discharge—an estimated 90% of Grassy Narrows residents, including newborns, had "symptoms of mercury poisoning". Symptoms included "numbness in the extremities, tremors, memory loss, tunnel vision, birth defects."
Mercury can be a potent poison. The most common method of exposure is inhalation, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which can result in respiratory symptoms. Abdominal ...
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The first description of symptoms of mercury poisoning among hatters appears to have been made in St Petersburg, Russia, in 1829. [14] In the United States, a thorough occupational description of mercury poisoning among New Jersey hatters was published locally by Addison Freeman in 1860.