Your text describes Minamata disease, in which children from a small town in Japan developed neurological and intellectual disabilities. According to your textbook, this disease was caused by:
a. mercury that was absorbed when their mothers consumed fish from a polluted bay
b. radiation from an atomic bomb that had an effect on genetic material for many generations
c. a deficiency of Vitamin B6 because a blockade prevented pregnant women and young children
from being able to get rice for six months
d. prenatal exposure to a fermented alcohol drink that had become popular in the town among
30. Your young mothers
Ans: a. mercury that was absorbed when their mothers consumed fish from a polluted bay
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