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2.7 million Chinese have skeletal fluorosis from water
Inadequate drinking water and sanitation, indoor air pollution, and accidents, injuries and poisonings: these are just three of the causes of the approximately 3 million deaths suffered annually by children under age five due to environmental hazards. 1.3 million children under five in developing countries died from diarrhoeal diseases caused by unsafe water supply, sanitation […]
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Potable water supply problem addressed in northern China
YINCHUAN, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) — More farmers in northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region are drinking potable water due to the efforts of the regional government. One year after the People and Livestock Drinking Water Project was launched, about 457,000 farmers in northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region have gained access to potable water. The […]
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China to relocate 64,000 villagers from areas plagued by chronic heart, bone diseases
SHANGHAI, China – A northern Chinese province plans to move 64,000 villagers from areas where chemicals in the soil and water are blamed for high levels of heart and bone disease. Residents of nearly 2,000 villages in the worst-afflicted parts of Shaanxi province are to be moved over the next five years, said provincial health […]
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[A preliminary report on endemic fluorosis caused by treating food with hot spring water].
Abstract Fengliang town is situated in the hot spring area in the eastern part of Guangdong province. The concentrations of fluorine in drinking water were less than 0.4 ppm and the prevalence rate of dental fluorosis was 55.43%. A preliminary epidemiological survey showed that the fluorine concentrations of vegetables treated with hot-spring water (F- 20.33 […]
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Chinese Steel Plant Belches Poison
A MAJOR steel plant in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region spews thousands of tons of fluoride every year, which has caused bone deformities among local herders and has killed thousands of sheep. The impact on livestock is so great that many herders have decided to leave their flocks, the only source of income in the […]
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Fluorosis: China’s Poison Plague
The road is narrow and choked with mud, as it winds through this rural township in China’s impoverished southern highlands and up to the weather-beaten doorway of an aging hut made of earth and straw. Inside the one-room hovel, near the beckoning warmth of an open fire, Li Fa-fa sits on a dirt floor hardened […]
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Fluoride Poisoning Strikes Over 45 Million Chinese
BEIJING – Smog caused by widespread use of low-grade coal has caused more than 45 million Chinese to be affected by fluoride poisoning, an official report said Thursday. Flourosis, overexposure to flouride, is endemic in practically all Chinese communities. A recent conference of medical workers in Beijing reported that since 1986, only 4 million people […]
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