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(A) Minamata disease is a neurological syndrome caused by severe mercury poisoning. It was first discovered in Minamata city,Japan,in $1956$. The dise

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(A) Minamata disease is a neurological syndrome caused by severe mercury poisoning. It was first discovered in Minamata city,Japan,in $1956$. The disease was caused by the release of methylmercury in the industrial wastewater from the Chisso Corporation's chemical factory,which bioaccumulated in shellfish and fish in Minamata Bay and the Shiranui Sea. When local people consumed these contaminated fish,they developed the disease.

Consumption of fish from water polluted by industrial waste causes which of the following diseases?

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