Celebrations for sufferers of embryonic Minamata disease turning 60

Celebrations for sufferers of embryonic Minamata disease turning 60

Two women and two men who are sufferers of embryonic Minamata disease attend a party at a welfare facility in Minamata, Kumamoto Prefecture on Feb. 4, 2017, held to celebrate their "kanreki" -- turning 60 -- an occasion for a special celebration in Japan. They suffer from the neurological disease as a result of their mothers eating mercury-contaminated seafood when pregnant with them. A Chisso Corp. chemical factory released methyl mercury along with wastewater into Minamata Bay between 1932 and 1968. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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