Talk:Niigata Minamata disease

Proposed merge

I disagree with the merge with Minamata disease. The two were originally contained in the same article but I spun this out into a separate article in line with the Wikipedia:Summary_style guideline. Bobo12345 23:10, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

If anything, just at the this article was spun-off, the original Minamata disease article could still be broken down into Kumamoto Minamata disease pertaining to the first confirmed case of the disease and the political boon-doggle associated with it while keeping the Minamata disease as the article discussing the chemical properties and their toxilogical effects of accute mercury poisoning. The navbox that Bobo had added should also help facilitate navigation between of all these articles as well. BTW, wasn't there also the Iraqi Minamata disease, caused by Saddam Hussein's government's medical experiments? CJLippert 06:32, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Doing a quick Google check, it wasn't a medical experiment but rather use of grain treated with methyl mercury as a fungicide, with a warning not to eat but to plant only, but due to poor harvest, people processed the treated grains and ate it, and coming down with acute methyl mercury poisoning. CJLippert 23:01, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for that. When I get time I'll do some research and add it into the Minamata disease article. Bobo12345 01:54, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Other than the Kumamoto and Niigata Minamata Diseases, Ontario Minamata Diseases, the methylmercury poisoning in Iraq, the Japanese article briefly mentions the Jilin outbreak in the 1970s along the Second Songhua River (sounds like it is China's version of "Chemical Alley"), and in the 1990s in the Amazon River basin (Alta Floresta, Brazil). CJLippert 22:44, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

In addition, there was a conference called “International forum in Kumamoto & Minamata regarding environmental damage” by the Japanese Environmental Council, held on September 9, 2006, where the Session 2 reports included a mercury pollution incident in Mongolia. Interestingly, in the process of doing websearch in Japanese, I see when I let the machines translate, they keep on translating the Songhua River literally as "Pine Flower River"! CJLippert 23:35, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Change in article focus

The disease infobox should be removed, as the page is about a historical event. That is to say, one cannot contract "Niigata Minamata disease" today - it is not a clinical diagnosis, and should therefore not have ICD codes, which are already on the page for Minamata disease Tiki2099 18:48, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

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