"GENEVA - Air pollution kills an estimated 600,000 children every year and causing symptoms ranging from loss of intelligence to obesity and ear infections but there is a limited amount parents can do, a World Health Organization report said on Monday.
Parents should try to avoid household air pollution by using less polluting fuels for cooking and heating and not smoking but to reduce child exposure to ambient pollution they should need to lobby politicians to clean up the environment, WHO experts said.
“Polluted air is poisoning millions of children and ruining their lives,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement. Large parts of Asia, Africa and Latin America are among the worst affected."
Tom Miles reports for Reuters October 29, 2018.
"How Air Pollution Is Destroying Our Health" (World Health Organization)
"90% Of World's Children Are Breathing Toxic Air, WHO Study Finds" (Guardian)
"Air Pollution Causes Up To 33 Million Er Visits For Asthma Annually" (EHN)
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