Nigeria hit by lead poisoning crisis
Doctors are struggling to save children stricken by lead poisoning – many of them blind, deaf and unable to walk – after poor herdsmen in northern Nigeria began illegally mining gold in an area with high concentrations.
More than 160 villagers have died and hundreds more have been made ill in the remote villages of Nigeria’s Zamfara state, officials said. The region is near the border with Niger, on the cusp of the Sahara Desert.
