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Yale Environment 360: In early 2010, while working in the impoverished rural region of Zamfara in northwestern Nigeria, the group Médecins Sans Frontières -- Doctors Without Borders -- encountered many young children suffering from fevers, seizures, and convulsions. An unusually high number of very young children, many under age five, were dying, and there were many fresh graves.
The doctors initially suspected malaria, meningitis, or typhoid, all common in the region. But when the sick children didn’t respond to anti-malarial......
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How a Gold Mining Boom is Killing the Children of Nigeria
Posted by Yale Environment 360: Elizabeth Grossman on March 1st, 2012
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