{"id":8425,"date":"2019-05-22T16:07:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/miniamata_disease\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:07:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:07:34","slug":"miniamata_disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/miniamata_disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Miniamata disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A form of mercury poisoning from ingesting methyl mercury in contaminated fish that led to 43 deaths in the Japanese coastal town of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.einap.org\/envdis\/Minamata.html\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.einap.org\/envdis\/Minamata.html&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Miniamata during 1953-1956<\/a>. &nbsp;The source of the mercury was traced to an effluent containing mercuric sulphate from a local PVC factory. &nbsp;Signs include numbness, difficulty in controlling the limbs, and impaired speech and hearing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"methyl_mercury\">Methyl mercury<\/a>, <a href=\"methylation\">Methylation<\/a>, <a href=\"teratogen\">Teratogen<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A form of mercury poisoning from ingesting methyl mercury in contaminated fish that led to 43 deaths in the Japanese coastal town of Miniamata during 1953-1956. &nbsp;The source of the mercury was traced to an effluent containing mercuric sulphate from a local PVC factory. &nbsp;Signs include numbness, difficulty in controlling the limbs, and impaired speech &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/miniamata_disease\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Miniamata disease&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}