'Peepoo' bag offers sanitary human waste disposal for pennies

Thursday, March 4, 2010 - 14:42 in Health & Medicine

(PhysOrg.com) -- About 40 percent of the earth`s population, or 2.6 billion people, do not have access to a toilet, according to United Nations. The unsanitary conditions have resulted in contaminated drinking water that causes diseases, such as diarrhea, which has become one of the leading causes of death in young children.

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