Felicia Kaylee

Minamata Outbreak Minamata disease is a disease of the nervous system that is caused by consuming a large amount of seafood such as fish and shellfish that were contaminated with methylmercury compounds. On the 1st of May 1956, the patient zero was a 5 years old girl who suffered from unusual neurological symptoms that showed speech disorders and loss of balance so that she could not walk. The following patients were her sister and 4 of her neighbors and the disease was later referred as the minamata disease or the chisso-minamata disease. A massive number of researches lead up into finding a variety of symptoms depending on the exposure level of the chemical. In relatively mild cases the symptoms were barely discernible from other illnesses such as headaches, fatigue, failure of memory, insomnia and could not distinguish taste and smell. While in severe cases, the complaints are conditioned as Hunter-Russell syndrome which characterized by paresthesia, cerebellar ataxia