Question

Minamata disease is due to:

Answer 1

(b) methyl mercury.

• Minamata disease is a case of excessive methyl mercury poisoning.
• It is caused due to the consumption of fish and shellfish contaminated with excessive quantities of methyl mercury in their bodies.
• The methyl mercury used in certain chemical industries gets mixed with water when the untreated effluent from such chemical factories is added to the nearby water bodies.