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Oil Spills Linked to Infant Deaths in Niger Delta

« on: November 08, 2017, 07:00:54 PM »

Oil Spills Linked to Infant Deaths in Niger Delta

Ejiofor Alike with agency report Babies in Nigeria are twice as likely to die in the first month of life if their mothers were living near an oil spill before falling pregnant, researchers have found. According to the London-based Guardian Newspaper, a new study, the first to link environmental pollution with newborn and child mortality […]
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