Arsenic Laced Water a Killer in Bangladesh
Arsenic, the favorite murder weapon of the Renaissance and the Middle Ages, the killer of many rulers like the British king George III and the French monarch Napoleon Bonaparte, has now returned to haunt the world. The victims this time are 75 million impoverished people of Bangladesh who have guzzled tainted groundwater laced with the chemical. Wells in the South Asian country that were meant to provide clean drinking water to the masses, free from water borne diseases such as cholera, accidently tapped into Arsenic deposits in the ground resulting in poisoned water.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) calls this the largest poisoning of a population in history. Arsenic has many long lasting effects on the human body including nerve damage, skin damage, lung, bladder, kidney and liver cancer, pigmentation problems and problems in the circulatory system. Even after the arsenic is removed from the water, experts say the damage caused by it already is permanent and it would leave the affected at a higher risk of being afflicted by a host of related illnesses.
Read more about how this toxic terror is affecting the people of Bangladesh, here- http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jun/27/arsenic-laced-water-a-killer-in-bangladesh/
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