Lead Sickens 1,300 Children in China

BEIJING — Lead pollution from a newly opened and unlicensed manganese smelter has poisoned more than 1,300 children in southeastern China’s Hunan Province, state-run media said on Thursday, the second case of mass lead poisoning in the past month... (please click for NYTimes link)

By MICHAEL WINES

Published: August 20, 2009

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