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»1 Million Dead in 25 Years: Arsenic Contamination is Increasing Cancer Risks Across 200 Indian Cities 4-MIN READ 1 Million Dead in 25 Years: Arsenic Contamination is Increasing Cancer Risks Across 200 Indian Cities In a file photo from 2004, a woman from West Bengal shows her wrinkled hands, a condition caused by drinking arsenic-contaminated water. (Reuters) Studies suggest that early 10 million people in India have been exposed to groundwater contaminated with arsenic. FOLLOW US ON: Seventy-year-old Priya Brath Sharma from Bihar’s Munger district, who has been bedridden for many years, is one among a million cases of arsenic poisoning reported in India. “I have stopped walking for many years as the lower body doesn’t move. I also went to AIIMS for treatment some years back, they said that it was Arsenic-related disease,” he said.

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