When the inhabitants of Minimata Bay ate the mercury contaminated fish their muscles wasted away, they lost their sight, and became psychologically damaged. Brain damaged and finally paralyzed, many fell unconscious and nearly 150 of them died.
水俁灣的居民食用了「水銀魚」，造成肌肉衰弱、視力減退、精神異常、大腦機能受損，終致癱瘓、昏迷不起，導致近一百五十人死傷。