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210456 Today one of my neighbor’s daughters got taken to the factory hospital. They were gone for some time. Though when they got back, they had no information to report back about her.230456 The neighbor’s other daughter just got sent to be hospitalized. Their mother said that the neighbor’s by her were also experiencing the same kind of problems.I think the doctors are going to survey on who else is having the same difficulties.I hope they don’t discover me and sentence me to that damn factory hospital. But I guess I’ll deal with that when it come around…280456 They discovered me and seven others by a house-to-house investigation, and now I am at that dreaded place. It’s not too bad.010556 Mom informed me that the local public health office reported a discovery of an epidemic of an unknown disease of the central nervous system.I feel this ‘epidemic’ starting to kick in everyday. Little by little my hand are getting weaker and it’s getting more difficult to stand without support of something sturdy.260556 I’m surprised to see this journal! But I’m not going to be writing much for much longer. I’m going faster than I had originally expected.Anyway, I found out that the city government and some medical practitioners formed the ‘Strange Disease Countermeasures Committee’ a few days ago. Everyone was told that because of the nature of the disease, it was suspected to be contagious and as a precaution we have to be isolated and our homes disinfected.150756 I had my first convulsion about a month ago. I am not going to last too long after this. I can feel it in my bones. It hurts more as the days pass.The Minamata disease is a real pain.I don’t think I can write any more after this.280856 My son died today at the Kumamoto University Hospital after many moths of suffering a long and painful death.It starts with ataxia, numbness of the limbs, muscle weakness, loss of vision, hearing and speech, convulsions, paralysis, coma, death.That is was what my son had suffered through.041156 The Kumamoto University researchers announced that the Minamata disease is caused by poisoning from heavy metal. They said it enters the body mainly through fish and shellfish.[Methyl mercury, an organic mercury compound released in factory wastewater and the cause of Minamata disease.]