In the early 1970's a major methyl mercury-poisoning catastrophe occurred in which an estimated 10,000 people died and 100,000 were severely and permanently brain damaged.

The wheat seeds were thus dressed with methyl mercury and sent to Basra in Iraq's south.

Others more accurately pointed to methyl mercury.

We confirmed methyl mercury poisoning through contaminated food.

There is no real treatment for methyl mercury poisoning.

Consequently, the official figures that put the number of deaths from methyl mercury poisoning at 6,500 people only cover those who died in hospital.

The crisis did provide doctors with some greater understanding of how to detect methyl mercury poisoning.

"Quiet baby syndrome," for example, when mothers praise their babies for never crying, is now considered a warning sign for methyl mercury-induced brain damage in children.

The agents traditionally used to speed up excretion of inorganic metals from poisoned patients turned out to make symptoms of methyl mercury poisoning worse rather than milder.

In 1984, a pesticide-manufacturing plant in Bhopal, India, released 27 tons of methyl isocyanate, a gas used to produce some pesticides.

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