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Niger to compensate child fluoride victims
Niger is to pay out at least $3.5 million in compensation to hundreds of children of the central town of Tibiri who suffered deformities after drinking water with high fluoride content, state TV reported Sunday. Local health authorities calculated back in 2001 that 4 918 youngsters suffered serious bone malformations after drinking the water which […]
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Niger Victims of Fluoride Poisoning Seek Compensation
Niamey, Niger (PANA) – Tibiri, a district 650 km east of Niamey now has clean and healthy water, but some 5,000 children who suffered bone malformations from drinking water with high fluoride content are still to get some form of compensation from the authorities. Healthy water supply was restored to the area thanks to a […]
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Hundreds of Children Poisoned by Tap Water
NIAMEY, Jan 14 (IPS) – The Societe Nigerienne des Eaux (SNE), Niger’s water company, is being sued because hundreds of children in Tibiri, 720 kilometres from Niger’s capital, Niamey, were poisoned by grossly elevated rates of fluoride in the town’s water. The children, ranging in age from 15 months to 14 years, contracted skeletal fluorosis, […]
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