SNAPSHOT: 50 yrs since confirmation of Niigata Minamata Disease

SNAPSHOT: 50 yrs since confirmation of Niigata Minamata Disease

Tomoko Sekikawa, a doctor who has examined victims of Niigata Minamata Disease for more than 40 years, examines a man complaining of symptoms of the mercury-poisoning disease on May 22, 2015, at a clinic in the central Japan city of Niigata. A half century has passed since "the second Minamata disease" was officially confirmed, after a similar disease was detected in the southwestern prefecture of Kumamoto in 1956. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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