Chapter 197: Dolphins' Revenge on Humans
After playing in the Maldives for five days, Jiang Hao returned to the coast, exercising, practicing boxing, reading books every day, and living a monotonous and quiet life.
Sometimes Jiang Hao also thought about whether he should find something to do, he couldn't be so idle, but when he thought of the tasks that might appear at any time, it would take a lot of time to prepare the tasks, so he gave up again.
Idle is idle, fortunately, we haven't reached the point of being idle to gnaw at the old, we still have money and idle qualifications.
Maybe in the future, when you encounter the right thing, you can start your own business.
Running in the morning, I saw the mature beauty Zhou Xinyan again, "Beauty, good morning, please run." ”
"I haven't seen you in a few days, have you gone out?" Zhou Xinyan asked.
"Went on a trip to the Maldives." Jiang Hao said casually.
"Alone?" Zhou Xinyan looked at Jiang Hao in surprise.
"yes, alone, what's wrong."
The beauty shook her head, "You are lonely enough to travel to the Maldives alone." ”
Jiang Hao: ......
Half a month passed, and on this day, a piece of news on the mobile phone attracted Jiang Hao's attention.
"Minamata disease broke out in Japan, and some experts said they were wary of super-mercury seafood!"
......
Kyoto, Japan,
A restaurant.
"Guest, what do you want?" The waiter asked.
A few friends ordered their favorite food, and one of them, Tanaka, ordered a sashimi of whale meat, and he said to his friends, "The taste of whale meat is still very special." ”
Everyone drank plum wine and chatted, Tanaka picked up a piece of bright red whale meat, dipped it in soy sauce and put it in his mouth, chewed it lightly and nodded: "Well, this whale meat is very fresh, and the taste is indeed unique." ”
Just as a few people were eating, suddenly Tanaka felt that it was difficult to breathe, and his body suddenly fell down, and someone said with a smile: "Tanaka, you won't drink too much, the amount of alcohol is getting worse and worse." ”
Just when people were teasing, they suddenly found that Tanaka began to twitch and looked very uncomfortable, and people realized that something might have happened, and everyone panicked.
"Tanaka, Tanaka, you're okay."
"Don't scare us."
"It can't be food poisoning, call the boss."
"Quick, call an ambulance."
The ambulance came, pulling Tanaka to the hospital, friends and restaurant owners went together, the doctors rushed to rescue measures, and the results of the blood test were very surprising, mercury poisoning, the mercury content in the blood exceeded the normal standard by more than 50 times.
The doctor told the news to everyone, and people were blinded all of a sudden, how could they be poisoned by mercury.
And things like this happen in many parts of Japan.
Whale meat dishes are popular in Waka Prefecture, after all, this is the largest producer of whale meat, there are specialized restaurants, and locals also have the habit of eating whale meat.
suddenly
Someone called to say that there might be a food poisoning incident, many people convulsed and vomited at the same time, and the hospital quickly sent an ambulance, but I didn't expect there to be more than a dozen people, all of whom were eating at the whale meat restaurant today.
After the hospital examination, these people are not food poisoning, but more serious mercury poisoning, the family anxiously asked how the situation is, the doctor said helplessly: "Mercury poisoning affects the nervous system, even if it is saved, I am afraid that it will be disabled, paralyzed, stupid, brain-dead and so on." ”
In Kobe, there have been three successive incidents of mercury poisoning.
In Osaka, there were five incidents of mercury poisoning at the same time.
In Nagoya...
In Yokosuka...
To make matters worse, there was a poisoning incident involving a foreigner in Tokyo, where an American tourist who came to Japan ate dolphin meat out of curiosity, which also triggered mercury poisoning and was sent to the hospital for medical treatment, where he is still unconscious.
The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare paid close attention to the situation and dispatched medical personnel to investigate, and while the investigation team rushed to the scene of the incident, more than a dozen cases of mercury poisoning broke out in succession, involving more than 100 people.
Naturally, this situation has attracted great attention from the media, and today, when news dissemination is so developed, it takes less than half a day for the whole of Japan to know about this matter, and in less than a day, the whole world knows about it.
Someone also shouted the frightening name "Minamata disease".
The media explained in detail what Minamata disease is.
Minamata disease is one of the most typical public health diseases in the world. "Minamata disease" first occurred in Minamata Town, Kumamoto Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan in 1953, and was called Minamata disease because the cause was unknown at that time.
Patients with Minamata disease have mild hand-foot coordination disorders, walking difficulties, motor impairments, mental retardation, hearing and speech impairments, limb numbness, sensory impairments, and reduced visual field. In severe cases, they are delirious, psychologically disturbed, spasms, and even death.
In short, it is a terrible disease, and severe patients generally do not live for more than three months.
For a time, it caused a panic in Japanese society.
The Japanese government did not dare to slack off, and it took half a day to finally find out the cause, and on the evening of the same day, the Ministry of Health and Welfare held a press conference to announce the results.
"According to the results of the investigation, all the people who were poisoned by mercury poisoning this time were due to the consumption of dolphin meat, and we took samples of dolphin meat from those restaurants and conducted laboratory tests and found that the mercury content in dolphin meat was 2,000 times that of ordinary animal meat."
"This result is shocking, and it is understood that the dolphin meat came from the Taiji fishing ground, and it is the same dolphins that were caught, and we have no conclusion as to why this happened."
"We would like to remind the general public and all visitors to Japan to refrain from eating dolphin meat and whale meat, and we will give the results of the investigation, whether it is man-made or otherwise, after a detailed investigation."
As soon as the news came out, the Japanese society was in an uproar, and a well-known Japanese biologist published a blog post saying: "2000 times, this is a shocking number, it can be said that those dolphins have become organic mercury making machines, and normal people only need to eat more than 50 grams of dolphin meat, that is, a piece of whale meat, which may cause acute mercury poisoning, and those meats can be described as poison." ”
"There have been reports of excessive organic mercury in dolphin meat, but the government has ignored them, and now there is an outbreak of poisoning, and the government is very responsible."
Japanese netizens are even more lively:
"I was next to the Tokyo mercury poisoning incident, and I was hesitant to try whale meat when I ordered, but then I didn't order it, and I ordered whale meat at a table next to me, and then both of them fell to the ground and convulsed, which frightened all the diners, and now I feel scared when I think about it."
"I have eaten it twice before, and the taste is very ordinary, but I didn't expect it to be life-threatening, comparable to a puffer fish that has not been poisoned, and I will never eat whale meat again."
"I'm worried about whether our kids will be okay if they have whale meat and dolphin meat for lunch in many places in the east."
"There have been calls for dolphins not to be caught for a long time, but they have not listened, and now dolphins have such high levels of organic mercury in their flesh, and I suspect that this is caused by a genetic mutation in dolphins, which is a revenge of dolphins against humans."