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Air pollution: Why and how it kills [1]

* Air pollution is responsible for about one in every nine deaths annually, with almost two-thirds of those deaths in the Western Pacific and Southeast Asia, the WHO says.

Publication Date: 
19/05/2017
Times Of India (New Delhi) [2]
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Air Pollution [3], WHO [4], Non Communicable Diseases [5], PM 2.5 [6], RSPM (PM 10) [7], Air Quality Standards [8], Health Effects [9]
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