Minamata disease: Catastrophic poisoning due to a failed public health response
- 13 April 2009
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Public Health Policy
- Vol. 30 (1), 54-67
- https://doi.org/10.1057/jphp.2008.30
Abstract
We present the history of Minamata disease in a chronological order from the public health point of view. Because the appropriate public health response – to investigate and control the outbreak – as...Keywords
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