This is kinda stale but just for those who haven't heard this story, well here it is. More than 160 people have died from Lead poisoning over the last month in northern Zamfara state. The majority of the dead are children. The poisoning is the result of illegal gold mining.
Unregulated miners use lead to help leach gold from ground-up rock. The lead is then spread by dust from the open-pit mines and by women who process the ore in their compounds. Some of the children poisoned are now blind, deaf, and unable to walk.
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