Contamination of water with mercury causes which disease ?

Typhoid

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Minamata disease

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Syphilis

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Goiter

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Solution

The correct option is B Minamata disease
The best known example of heavy metal pollution in the oceans took place when Japanese factory discharged a significant amount of mercury metal into Minamata Bay, contaminating the fish stocks there. By that time, many local people had eaten the fish and around 2000 were poisoned. Hundreds of people were left dead or disabled.

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