Arsenic-polluted water toxic to Bangladesh economy

Tuesday, November 30, 2010 - 17:03 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 Organisation 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...

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