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Q. Minamata disease is a pollution related disease. It results from -------------------------.

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Mercury compounds in wastewater are converted by bacterial actions into the extremely toxic compound, methyl mercury. Biomagnification of mercury into fishes through the food chain is responsible for a large number of deaths due to Minamata diseases. It is characterized by numbness of limbs, lips and tongue, deafness, blurred vision, mental retardation, etc.