Arsenic alarm in Bihar villages
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Arsenic levels have risen to alarming levels in many districts of the Indian state of Bihar, officials say.
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The State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) has finally found the culprit behind blood poisoning that has caused 179 villagers to be hospitalized in Northwest China's Gansu Province.
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DHAKA, Bangladesh - Floodwaters from upstream India have swamped some 80 villages in southwestern Bangladesh, marooning at least 65,000 people, officials said Sunday.    Roads and crops were submerged and schools and homes were standing deep in water...
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LIMA, Peru  - Indian peasants burned alive a manaccused of stealing a gas canister in the latest outbreak ofmob justice in Peru's remote southern Andes.
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Sept. 29, 2004 -- Arsenic, despite its poisonous nature, may help save lives. Mounting evidence suggests that an arsenic treatment is effective for a rare form of leukemia.
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India's federal government will supply emergency equipment to southern areas hit by a rare, mosquito-borne fever that has killed at least 81 people in the past month, the health minister said Friday.
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Indonesian rights campaigners have had their worst fears confirmed with the news the country&#39;s best-known activist was apparently a victim of arsenic poisoning.
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China says 312 million villagers face water shortages or use water contaminated by fluorine, arsenic and organic or industrial pollutants.
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More than 100 people have died in flash floods in India&#39;s north-eastern state of Assam over the past few days. The worst affected area is the district of Goalpara where at least 80 villagers are still missing, officials say.
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India's efforts to eradicate polio nationwide have hit a hurdle in eastern Bihar state where poor, conservative communities are refusing to have their children immunized because they don't trust the medicine or its distributors.
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Pyres of victims who were killed by tidal waves burn on the beach at Alappad, in the southern Indian state of Kerala, Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2004.
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China's second largest freshwater lake tests clear of arsenide pollution    YUEYANG, Hunan Province, Sept.
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By Dan Davis, The Tribune, Seymour, Ind.  Feb. 10--Federal health officials want to further evaluate soil and water samples from some Carr Township properties.
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By Chris Dumond, Middletown Journal, Ohio  Feb. 23--A local watchdog group is asking the U.S. Environmental  Protection Agency to warn local fishermen and other outdoor enthusiasts to  stay away from the Armco Superfund site just outside New Miami and not to eat  the fish caught there.
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No one poisoned from arsenide pollution incident in C. China county    YUEYANG, Hunan Province, Sept. 10 (Xinhua) -- No one has been reported to get poisoned at Yueyang County in central China's Hunan Province, where the source of drinking water was found polluted with arsenide Friday.
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Ten people believed to be thieves are reported beaten to death by villagers in the northern Indian state of Bihar.
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Naturally occurring arsenic in drinking water poses a growing global health risk as large numbers of people unknowingly consume unsafe levels.