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News items on 'Lead Poisoning'
Low lead levels harming children
(BBC 17/09/2009)
Young children's exposure to lead in the environment is harming their intellectual and emotional development, according to UK researchers. The researchers say the toxic effects of lead on the central nervous system are obvious even below the current so-called safe level of lead in the blood. They are recommending the threshold should be halved. A spokesman for the Health Protection Agency said levels of exposure should be kept to the minimum.
Lead for car batteries poisons an African town
(World health - EU Monitor 04/01/2009)
THIAROYE SUR MER, Senegal - First, it took the animals. Goats fell silent and refused to stand up. Chickens died in handfuls, then en masse. Street dogs disappeared. Then it took the children... When the West sent health experts - they did not find malaria, or polio or AIDS, or any of the diseases that kill the poor of Africa. They found lead.
Exposure to lead speeds ageing by up to six years
(The Independent 31/08/2008)
Millions of people will grow old faster than they should because of past exposures to lead in petrol, a startling series of studies indicates.
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