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Also known as Hashimoto's disease, Hashimoto's thyroiditis is named after Japanese physician Hakaru Hashimoto (1881−1934) of the medical school at Kyushu University, [126] who first described the symptoms of persons with struma lymphomatosa, an intense infiltration of lymphocytes within the thyroid, in 1912 in the German journal called Archiv ...
The four big pollution diseases of Japan (四大公害病, yondai kōgai-byō) were a group of man-made diseases all caused by environmental pollution due to improper handling of industrial wastes by Japanese corporations. [1] The first occurred in 1912, and the other three occurred in the 1950s and 1960s.
Japanese encephalitis; Other names: Japanese B encephalitis: The geographic distribution of Japanese encephalitis (dark green) Specialty: Infectious disease: Symptoms: Headache, fever, vomiting, confusion, seizures [1] Usual onset: 5 to 15 days after infection [1] Causes: Japanese encephalitis virus (spread by mosquitoes) Diagnostic method
Minamata disease (Japanese: 水俣病, Hepburn: Minamata-byō) is a neurological disease caused by severe mercury poisoning. Signs and symptoms include ataxia , numbness in the hands and feet, general muscle weakness , loss of peripheral vision , and damage to hearing and speech .
Pages in category "Disease outbreaks in Japan" ... 0–9. 735–737 Japanese smallpox epidemic; 1998 Winter Olympics flu epidemic; 2009 swine flu pandemic in Japan; C.
This is a list of diseases starting with the letter "J Ja–Je. Jackson–Weiss syndrome; Jacobsen syndrome ... Jansky–Bielschowsky disease; Japanese encephalitis ...
Kawasaki disease (also known as mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome) is a syndrome of unknown cause that results in a fever and mainly affects children under 5 years of age. [6] It is a form of vasculitis, in which medium-sized blood vessels become inflamed throughout the body. [1]
This is a list of infectious diseases arranged by name, along with the infectious agents that cause them, ... Japanese encephalitis virus: Japanese encephalitis: