薬害ヤコブ病訴訟

Reading

Kana: やくがいヤコブびょうそしょう

Romaji: yakugaiyakobubyōsoshō

Definition

noun

1

Japanese lawsuit involving cases where hospitalized patients contracted Creutzfeld-Jakob disease from infected transplants

Kanji

薬

Readings: ヤク、 くすり

Meanings: medicine, chemical, enamel, gunpowder, benefit

害

Reading: ガイ

Meanings: harm, injury

病

Readings: ビョウ、 ヘイ、 や.む、 -や.み、 やまい

Meanings: ill, sick

訴

Readings: ソ、 うった.える

Meanings: accusation, sue, complain of pain, appeal to

訟

Reading: ショウ

Meanings: sue, accuse