KUMAMOTO – Support groups for Minamata disease patients said Thursday they have delivered written protests to the chairman of the Kumamoto Prefectural Assembly over discriminatory references to the disease on the assembly’s Web site.
The disease is described as both a “stumbling disease” and a “drunken disease” on a system used to search the database of assembly meeting records, they said.
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