Health Sciences 3290A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Asubpeeschoseewagong First Nation, Health Promotion, Food Security
12 Nov 2016
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Case 2: chemical valley and the aamjiwnaang first nation in sarnia. Chemicals and toxins all around us in products hard to know what is contributing to the health affects. Hard to pin point one chemical as causing one health affect. River where people fish contaminated with mercury from a paper mill upstream. Ongoing impacts on the health of the community members. Struggling with provincial government to take effective action. Paper plant in the upstream vicinity from where grassy narrows is located. Dumping chemicals with mercury from the paper mill into the river. Fishing main source of food security and livelihood. Minimatta in japan, a case of mercury contamination: kinds of effects it had on peoples health were then labeled minimatta disease, disrupts sensory feelings, mostly in your fingers and toes numb feeling. Confused about: new generation of people who still experience the same kinds of symptoms from mercury.
