The Poison Review

In a somewhat confusing story, the BBC reports as many as 30 children in a village near the town of Anka in northern Nigeria may have died of lead poisoning in recent weeks.  As TPR posted last month, over one hundred children in Zamfara, Nigeria have died over the past year or so after being exposed to soil and gold ore containing large amounts of lead.  This current resurgence of lead poisoning, if confirmed, may have been caused because heavy rains washed lead-contaminated soil into water supplies.