Hundreds Dying from Lead

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Dareta, Nigeria (CNN) -- In remote northern Nigeria, it is now a race against time to prevent a catastrophe in the world's worst-ever recorded outbreak of lead poisoning.Officially 163 people have already died in Zamfara state -- 111 of them children. But no one knows the true figures.



Link and video here (http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/06/13/nigeria.lead.clean.up/index.html?hpt=C1)

By Christian Purefoy, CNN

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Wow. I sure wouldn't want to be the contractor who comes along and remodels one of those mud huts later on. He'll get blamed for disturbing all the lead.