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Five die of fluorosis in Orissa
Bhubaneswar, Apr 6 (IANS) – At least five people, including four women, have died of fluorosis, a water-borne disease, and nearly 50 have been afflicted in Orissa villages. The deaths were reported from Balasingha, Balasinghapatna and Singhpur villages in Khurda district, about 60 km from here, over the past week, a local legislator, Prasanta Nanda, […]
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A new danger confronts Assamese
While the attention of the public is focused on arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh, West Bengal and other places, fluorosis is quietly exacting its toll elsewhere in South Asia. For more than a decade, Assam has been in the limelight for its multiple insurgencies. Because of this almost exclusive focus on violence, a new danger confronting […]
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Fluorosis in Yavatmal
In mid-2000, as incidents of severe fluorosis in a village in Yavatmal district came to light, the Maharashtra government declared a special Rs 200 crore package for safe drinking water in tribal-dominated areas. The incidents had sparked off a major uproar and in an unprecedented move, the National Human Rights Commission too had passed strictures […]
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Fluorosis affects eight districts in Rajasthan
JAIPUR: Fluorosis has engulfed eight major districts of Rajasthan causing serious human, dental and skeletal abnormalities, according to a UNICEF report. Atleast 16,560 out of 33,211 villages in the country, about 51 per cent, have reported excessive concentration of fluoride in the range of 1.5-3.0 ppm (parts per million) affecting people of all age group […]
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Nalgonda leaders plead for drinking water project
HYDERABAD: In response to a report carried in The Times of India, leaders of various political parties from Nalgonda district on Tuesday appealed to Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu to consider immediate sanction of the Madharam reservoir drinking water project, to solve the fluoride problem in 36 villages. In a representation submitted to Naidu under the […]
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Rajasthan May Turn Into People With Bent Backs
The problem of fluorosis in Rajasthan has aggrevated. All the districts in Rajasthan have villages affected with fluoride contamination in ground water. According to study conducted by voluntary organisation Health, Environment & Development Consortium, more than 8 million people are consuming water with high concentration of fluoride. People are becoming incapable of doing work also […]
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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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