Topic: Poisoning
AFP Global Edition | 2009-08-31 03:00:18
<div><p>Parents in southwestern China are accusing a local industrial park of causing lead poisoning in their children, state media said Monday, in the latest in a slew of similar incidents to spark public ire.</p><p>A hospital in Kunming, capital of Yunnan province, has found that 200 out of ...
AFP Global Edition | 2009-08-24 07:00:31
<div><p>Two weeks ago, Xiao Fengying travelled seven hours by car with her two sick children aged six and 13 from their home in China's rural Hunan province to Changsha city for medical treatment.</p><p>Both were suffering from suspected lead poisoning caused by a smelting plant near their ...
Reuters | 2009-08-24 05:54:23
A nine-month-old child who was diagnosed with having excessive lead in his blood is seen in his mother's arms at their home in a village in Wugang, Hunan province, August 24, 2009. China's Henan, the top refined lead ...
AP News | 2009-08-24 04:16:03
A villager walks past the closed Wugang Manganese Smelting Plant in Wenping township in Hunan province, Saturday, Aug. 22, 2009. Two environmental officials were under investigation Saturday after more than 1,300 children were poisoned by pollution from a manganese ...
