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    Thursday, 08 January 2009

    Lead Poisoning Kills Senegalese Townspeople

    Heidi Vogt's story appeared in the International Herald Tribune.

    THIAROYE-SUR-MER, Senegal: First, it took the animals. Goats fell silent and refused to stand up. Chickens died in handfuls, then en masse. Street dogs disappeared.

    Then it took the children. Toddlers stopped talking and their legs gave out. Women birthed stillborns. Infants withered and died. Some said the houses were cursed. Others said the families were cursed.

    The mysterious illness killed 18 children in this town on the fringes of Dakar, Senegal's capital, before anyone in the outside world noticed. When they did - when the TV news aired parents' angry pleas for an investigation, when the doctors ordered more tests, when the West sent health experts - they did not find malaria, or polio or AIDS, or any of the diseases that kill the poor of Africa.

    They found lead.

    So where did the lead come from? From old car batteries. The people had been extracting lead from old car batteries and started accumulating in the soil. With the price of lead rising, the people started sifting through the soil to get the lead.

    Read more here.

    Posted on Thursday, 08 January 2009 at 12:15 AM in Africa, Bad People, Bad Things, Climate, Environment, & Water |

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