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Vulnerable kids. (updates).(children at risk from diseases caused by environmental contamination)(Brief Article)

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Children under age 5 are most at risk from diseases caused by environmental contamination, according to a report from the World Health Organization.

"Children are threatened by a variety of physical agents such as polluted indoor and outdoor air, road traffic, contaminated food and water, unsafe buildings, contaminants in toys, radiation and environmental tobacco smoke," says Domingo Jimenez-Beltran, executive director of the European ...

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