水俣病

水俁病
shuǐyǔbìng
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Meanings

  1. 1 Minamata disease (neurological illness caused by mercury poisoning)

Examples

Shuǐyǔbìng shì yóu gǒng zhòngdú yǐnqǐ de.
Minamata disease is caused by mercury poisoning.
Shuǐyǔbìng shì gōngyè wūrǎn zuì zhùmíng de ànlì zhī yī.
Minamata disease is one of the most famous cases of industrial pollution.

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history
Named after Minamata Bay in Japan, where the disease was first identified in 1956 after Chisso Corporation discharged methylmercury into the water. It became a global cautionary tale about industrial pollution and corporate negligence.

In Pop Culture

尤金·史密斯 Yóujīn Shǐmìsī
W. Eugene Smith
American photojournalist whose 1971–1973 photo essay on Minamata victims (notably 'Tomoko Uemura in Her Bath') made the disaster internationally known.

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