Researchers provide solution to world's worst mass poisoning case
Wednesday, September 3, 2008 - 11:07
in Mathematics & Economics
A solution to the world's worst case of ongoing mass poisoning, linked to rising cancer rates in Southern Asia, has been developed by researchers from Queen's University Belfast. Currently over 70 million people in Eastern India and Bangladesh, experience involuntary arsenic exposure from consuming water and rice; the main staple food in the region...
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