China's "cancer villages" bear witness to economic boom

2009/09/16 19:25:36 @Reuters: International News

HONG KONG (Reuters) - One needs to look no further then the river that runs through Shangba to understand the extent of the heavy metals pollution that experts say has turned the hamlets in this region of southern China into cancer villages. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=Qd_cdMk1qNs:WkA9lZOusUQ:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=Qd_cdMk1qNs:WkA9lZOusUQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=Qd_cdMk1qNs:WkA9lZOusUQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=Qd_cdMk1qNs:WkA9lZOusUQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=Qd_cdMk1qNs:WkA9lZOusUQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/Qd_cdMk1qNs" height="1" width="1"/
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