More Than 600 Sickened by Lead Poisoning in China

[xchrom]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/06/12/world/asia/AP-AS-China-Lead-Poisoning.html?ref=world

BEIJING (AP) — More than 600 people, including 103 children, have been sickened in China's latest case of mass lead poisoning, state media reported Sunday.

China has suffered widespread problems in recent years from heavy metal contamination, with thousands of children affected by lead poisoning in several provinces in 2009 and 2010 because they lived near metal smelters or battery factories.

The victims in the latest case were workers and their children in 25 family-run tinfoil processing workshops in Yangxunqiao town in Zhejiang province in eastern China, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

Xinhua said tests showed that 26 adults and all 103 children have severe lead poisoning, while 494 others have moderate poisoning.

[marmar]

1. The anti-regulation Repugs want to bring that to America.

nt

[xchrom]

2. indeed. nt

[izquierdista]

5. Not so....

They were getting heat in America, and it would cost too much to do it cleanly, so they exported those jobs (and the contamination) to China. Now that they have found out how profitable it is to pollute China, they're never coming back to America.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. The Chinese people are not happy with the state of the state.

More and more, they are standing up against the party. It could get really ugly.

[xchrom]

4. the articles about inner mongolia have been very interesting

over the last couple of weeks.

there are pressure points -- in spite of news to the contrary.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

6. that's a real hot spot. there are many others.

several rural areas have had virtual martial law because the "peasants" have been rioting and overthrowing the local communist party leaders. Corruption, crime, bribery are their biggest complaints, after out and out theft by the petty leaders.