Niigata Minamata disease (新潟水俣病 Niigata Minamata-byō) is a neurological syndrome caused by severe mercury poisoning. Identical in symptoms to the original outbreak of Minamata disease in Kumamoto Prefecture the second outbreak in Niigata Prefecture was confirmed with the same name in 1965.
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