{"id":25063,"date":"2015-05-13T18:33:07","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T17:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newmail-ng.com\/new\/?p=25063"},"modified":"2015-05-15T08:02:43","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T07:02:43","slug":"lead-poisoning-kills-28-children-in-niger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmail-ng.com\/lead-poisoning-kills-28-children-in-niger\/","title":{"rendered":"Lead poisoning kills 28 children in Niger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 28 children aged under five have died in the latest case of lead poisoning in Rafi council area of Niger state, the federal health ministry confirmed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>They include 17 boys and 11 girls, according to minister of state for health Fidelis Nwankwo.<\/p>\n<p>The dead are among 65 children who took ill on 12 May.<\/p>\n<p>A scoping mission by a team from the ministries of health and mines and steel development found people affected had lead in their system 22 times higher than allowed for safety limits.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have blamed illegal mining in unapproved sites where lead concentration is higher.<\/p>\n<p>Previous lead poisoning among familes mining gold in Zamfara killed hundreds of children.<\/p>\n<p>But Dr Abdulsalam Nasidi, director-general of Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, said the Niger sites have &#8220;more lead than what we have in Zamfara, hence the need to act urgently.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This epidemic is worse than what we saw in Zamfara,&#8221; said Dr Nasir Sani-Gwarzo, director of port health services who led an eight-man epidemiology team to Niger.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Us<\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis_toolbox addthis_32x32_style addthis_default_style\"> <a class=\"addthis_button_facebook_follow\" addthis:userid=\"pages\/NewMailNG\/156576314503603\"><\/a> <a class=\"addthis_button_twitter_follow\" addthis:userid=\"NewMailNG\"><\/a> <\/div>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/s7.addthis.com\/js\/300\/addthis_widget.js#pubid=ra-5328a5e30a5c9646\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 28 children aged under five have died in the latest case of lead poisoning in Rafi council area of Niger state, the federal health ministry confirmed on Wednesday. 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