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African Gold Rush Kills Children
African Gold Rush Kills Children as Miners Discover Lead Dust
Villagers in Nigeria raced to pulverize gold-bearing rocks with grain grinders, then washed the dust at communal wells, setting off the world's worst modern lead-poisoning crisis (Bloomberg) — Gold fever brought death to Umoru Musa's nine-family compound in Sunke, a mud-brick village in northern Nigeria. Five of the 25 children, including Musa's 1-year-old daughter Nafisa, lost their lives in May after villagers ground ore from nearby hills they didn't know were also loaded with lead. Rising prices for gold promised a windfall. Instead, they helped unleash the deadliest lead-poisoning crisis in modern medical history. whole article he http://www.businessweek.com/investor...220_698752.htm Is Africa just cursed or what? Dave |
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