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Pollution caused over one million premature births in India [1]

Expectant mothers breathing polluted air resulted in premature birth of over one million babies in India in 2010, highest in the world and twice the numbers for China, a study claimed today.

Publication Date: 
17/02/2017
Business Standard (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Air Pollution [3], Health Effects [4], Maternal Health [5], PM 2.5 [6], India [7], China [8], Indoor Air Pollution [9]
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