Chen Zhu, a professor of biology and medicine, and China’s health minister until last year, says the horrific pollution in China is killing as many as half a million people per year.
The Telegraph reports:
“Studies by the World Bank, WHO, and the Chinese Academy for Environmental Planning on the effect of air pollution on health concluded that between 350 000 and 500000 people die prematurely each year as a result of outdoor air pollution in China,” Mr Chen and his fellow authors noted.
He added that air pollution has become “the fourth biggest threat to the health of Chinese people” (behind heart disease, dietary risk and smoking) and that lung cancer is “now the leading cause of death from malignant tumours in the country”…
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