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19-12-2009 Bangladesh mass poisoning mystery solved
Gepubliceerd op: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 11:17:06 +0100

New Scientist, 16 November 2009

One of the world's great poisoning mysteries may have been solved – the source of the arsenic that turns up in lethal quantities in hundreds of thousands of wells across Bangladesh. The answer is ponds. 
 
Bangladesh occupies the flood-prone delta of the river Ganges. In the past half-century, villagers have had to dig pits for soil
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