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Fluorosis victims lament government indifference
KODAD:The problem of fluorosis may be severe in Gondriala village in Kodad mandal of Nalgonda district, but an estimated 1.5 lakh people in 35 other habitations in the area are no strangers to its ill-effects. Spread over the mandals of Kodad, Nadigudem, Munagala and Chilkur, these habitations have water with high fluoride content. This causes […]
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Fluorosis cripples Gondriala villagers
KODAD: Men in their prime youth need help of a stick to walk. Children, who should be playing around, cannot even walk. Life is a punishment for the 3,400 villagers of Gondriala in Kodad mandal of the backward Nalgonda district. The high-fluoride content in the drinking water has crippled most of them for life. More […]
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Peepal may have cure for fluoride poisoning
CUTTACK: The antidote for fluoride poisoning may well lie in the Peepal and Drumstick trees. The Animal Disease Research Institute (ADRI) at Phulnakhara here is all set to conduct a research to find this out. The basis for the research project was formed after preliminary investigation by the Institute’s experts in the fluorosis affected zones […]
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Team to study disease scare at Pentakota
VISAKHAPATNAM: A medical team comprising superintendent of Hospital for Mental Care, a neuro specialist and a physician rushed to Pentakota, a fishing village on East Godavari district study the mysterious disease wherein people of this village are said to suffer a sudden memory loss. “We are organising a free medical check up were our doctors […]
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Deafness more common among rural kids — Survey
PANCHKULA, Nov 16: According to a current survey, 7 per cent of the district’s population is deaf. A figure less than the national figure of 90-95 million by only 2.7 per cent. The survey was conducted in Raipur Rani by a team of PGI doctors led by Dr S.B.S. Mann, head of the ENT department, […]
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NGRI’s way with fluoride water
SECUNDERABAD:The National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI) here has come up with a cost-effective way to deal with the fluoride problem in some parts of the state. It has successfully experimented with what is called ‘Artificial recharge through bore hole injection’ for the purpose. According to Dr T Harinarayana a scientist at NGRI, the experiment has […]
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Water in every other village unsafe in Karnataka
BANGALORE: Drinking water in nearly 50 per cent of Karnataka’s villages is unsafe for consumption: This is the shocking fact uncovered by the Rural Development and Panchayat Raj (RDPR) department following a survey submitted in June. Nearly 200,000 water samples from every water source in 56,682 rural habitations were collected over one year and examined […]
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Fluoride in Gaya village water
A central medical team led by Dr R C Srivastava, associate professor, All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health (AIIHPH), conducted anon-the-spot test of underground water at village Bhoop Nagar on Saturday and confirmed the alarming presence of fluoride content which has caused physical deformities and accelerated the ageing process of the villagers. According […]
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Study Finds Link between High Fluoride & Kidney Stones
A new study published in the journal Urological Research, has found an association between high levels of fluoride in the water and painful kidney stones. According to the study, urolithiasis (kidney stones) was 4.6 times more common in an area with high fluoride (3.5 to 4.9 ppm) than in a similar area without high fluoride. […]
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Alarming rise in fluoride level in Faridabad district
Fluoride in water drawn from ground in the district has reached to a dangerous level. The fluoride level has jumped to almost seven times above normal in the past few years. According to Central Ground Water Board Sources, this has come to light after recent studies and surveys by the department. It has been revealed […]
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