Itai-itai disease

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Itai-itai disease (Japanese: イタイイタイ病, Hepburn: itai-itai byō; lit. 'it hurts-it hurts disease') was the name given to the mass cadmium poisoning of Toyama Prefecture, Japan, starting around 1912.

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