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Itai-Itai disease(Cadmium poisoning)
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Around Jinzu river in Toyama
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Feeling pain on lower back and lower extremity.
Patient will have a terrible ache to walk.
When they have a cough and sneeze, they break their costae and have deformity of their body.
This disease harms the kidneys
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Chronic poisoning by cadmium.
People who living by Jinzu river eat crops made with cadmium-contaminated water.
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Cadmium flowed from metalliferous mine by upper reach of Jinzu river to lower.
Ground onset of the disease
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