Itai-itai disease (イタイイタイ病itai-itai byō ) (literally: "ouch-ouch" disease) was the first documented case of mass cadmium poisoning in the world in Toyama Prefecture, Japan in 1950.
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cadmium toxicity may be carried into the body by zinc binding proteins Zinc and cadmium are in the same group on the periodic table, contain the same common oxidation state (+2) In addition, cadmium can replace magnesium and calcium in certain biological systems