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Bringing up a family, knowing that the water you have to drink and the food you have to eat contains a deadly pollutant. Living with the fear that, because of this pollution, you or a member of your family could be struck down at any time by cancer, a heart disease or a fatal blood disorder. There has been a larger than expected increase in cases of thyroid cancer (World Health Organisation). Diabetes, blood disorders and heart diseases are all on the increase. The children are suffering most because they absorb higher levels of contamination that adults. In the 15 years since the accident, there have been 600 cases of childhood thyroid cancer in Belarus (In Britain there have been 23 cases in 23 years). |
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