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China says 1,300 sickened in lead poisoning case
54 mins ago
BEIJING – More than 1,300 children have been sickened in a lead poisoning case in China's central Hunan province, the second such case involving a large number of children in the past month, state media said Thursday.
The official Xinhua News Agency said 1,354 children who lived near a manganese processing plant in Wenping township were diagnosed as having excessive lead in their blood.
It said more tests have to be done by provincial authorities, but that the children, aged under 14, had lead levels of more than 100 milligrams per liter of blood, compared with the normal level of zero to 100 milligrams.
A man who would not give his name or position at the Wenping township government office said 60 percent to 70 percent of the local children tested were found to have excessive levels of lead in their blood.
He said he could not give a number of cases because they are still on the rise, with more children being sent to the hospital for testing. Calls to local health offices rang unanswered Thursday.
Xinhua said local authorities ordered the smelter shut last week and detained two of its executives on suspicion of "causing severe environment pollution."
In Shaanxi province in northern China, at least 615 out of 731 children in two villages near the Dongling smelter in the town of Changqing have tested positive for lead poisoning, which can damage the nervous and reproductive systems and cause high blood pressure and memory loss.
In the Hunan case, the children are from four villages near the Wugang Manganese Smelting Plant in Wenping, Xinhua said. The children still have to be tested in the provincial capital Changsha to see how serious their cases are.
Xinhua quoted Huang Wenbin, deputy environment chief in Wugang, as saying the plant opened in May 2008 without the approval of the local environmental protection bureau.
It said a primary school, a middle school and a kindergarten were within 500 yards (meters) of the plant.
China says 1,300 sickened in lead poisoning case
54 mins ago
BEIJING – More than 1,300 children have been sickened in a lead poisoning case in China's central Hunan province, the second such case involving a large number of children in the past month, state media said Thursday.
The official Xinhua News Agency said 1,354 children who lived near a manganese processing plant in Wenping township were diagnosed as having excessive lead in their blood.
It said more tests have to be done by provincial authorities, but that the children, aged under 14, had lead levels of more than 100 milligrams per liter of blood, compared with the normal level of zero to 100 milligrams.
A man who would not give his name or position at the Wenping township government office said 60 percent to 70 percent of the local children tested were found to have excessive levels of lead in their blood.
He said he could not give a number of cases because they are still on the rise, with more children being sent to the hospital for testing. Calls to local health offices rang unanswered Thursday.
Xinhua said local authorities ordered the smelter shut last week and detained two of its executives on suspicion of "causing severe environment pollution."
In Shaanxi province in northern China, at least 615 out of 731 children in two villages near the Dongling smelter in the town of Changqing have tested positive for lead poisoning, which can damage the nervous and reproductive systems and cause high blood pressure and memory loss.
In the Hunan case, the children are from four villages near the Wugang Manganese Smelting Plant in Wenping, Xinhua said. The children still have to be tested in the provincial capital Changsha to see how serious their cases are.
Xinhua quoted Huang Wenbin, deputy environment chief in Wugang, as saying the plant opened in May 2008 without the approval of the local environmental protection bureau.
It said a primary school, a middle school and a kindergarten were within 500 yards (meters) of the plant.
