Nigeria: Doctors treat lead-poisoned children

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FILE - A Thursday, June 10, 2010 photo from files showing local health workers removing earth contaminated by lead from a family compound in the village of Dareta in Gusau, Nigeria. The Nigerian village that suffered one of the worst recorded incidents of lead poisoning is now habitable and doctors can start treating more than 1,000 contaminated children, a doctor and a scientist from two international agencies said Friday. For some, it already is too late to reverse serious neurological damage, said Dr. Michelle Chouinard, Nigeria country director for Doctors Without Borders, told The Associated Press on Friday, Aug. 2, 2013. Some children are blind, others paralyzed, many will struggle at school with learning disabilities, she said. Doctors Without Borders uncovered the scandal in 2010 but nothing was done until this year about the worst-affected village, Bagega, because the federal government did not provide a promised $3 million, the group said. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File)LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The Nigerian village that suffered one of the world's worst recorded incidents of lead poisoning is now habitable and doctors can start treating more than 1,000 contaminated children, a doctor and a scientist from two international agencies said Friday.

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