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Air pollution biggest health risk, says WHO [1]

LONDON: Air pollution has emerged as the world's single largest environmental health risk, having caused seven million deaths in 2012 — 80% of which were from heart attacks and stroke.

Publication Date: 
26/03/2014
Kounteya Sinha [2]
Times Of India (New Delhi) [3]
Tags:
Air Pollution [4], WHO [5], Carcinogenicity [6], Cancer [7], Respiratory Diseases [8], Indoor Air Pollution [9]

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