How a Gold Mining Boom is Killing the Children of #Nigeria by Elizabeth Grossman: Yale Environment 360
http://e360.yale.edu/feature/how_a_gold_mining_boom_is_killing_the_children_of_nigeria/2500
In the past two years, more than 400 children have died in Zamfara, more than 2,000 have been treated with chelation therapy, and thousands more have been — and continue to be — severely poisoned by exposure to pervasive lead dust.
“We’re losing a whole generation of kids,” said Human Rights Watch researcher Jane Cohen, who was in Zamfara last December and whose group issued a report on the situation last month. The crisis continues despite the extraordinary work to date to treat the most severely affected children and to clean contaminated homes and village sites.
#enfants #santé #extraction #or #plomb #contamination