Arsenic-Polluted Water Toxic to Bangladesh Economy
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 - 13:30
in Health & Medicine
The well-reported arsenic contamination of drinking water in Bangladesh - called the "largest mass poisoning of a population in history" by the World Health Organization and known to be responsible for a host of slow-developing diseases - has now been shown to have an immediate and toxic effect on the struggling nation's economy.