Environmental damage looms in Nigerian lead crisis

Friday, June 11, 2010 - 10:44 in Health & Medicine

(AP) -- As masked Nigerian environmental experts examined a communal well in a village where more than 60 children were killed by lead poisoning, barefoot kids streaked with dust sat on the contaminated ground, running their hands through the silt and sucking on their fingers.

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