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February 12, 2017

Kawasaki Urinary Mercury Orlowski 1980

The temporal and geographic relationship between the description of the mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome (MLNS) or Kawasaki disease, and the Minamata Bay contamination with mercury in Japan is impressive. Also, the appearance of MLNS in the United States has paralleled the increasing concern with environmental pollution of natural bodies of water with mercury.

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