Healthcare under threat in Myanmar
Health Check
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The Effects of Bad Water on Children's Brains
Children's brains are developing at a very fast rate and so are their bodies as well, their bones etc. We think it has impact on brain development, the growth of their bones even on your possibility of having babies later on and actually cancer as well. And is this about the water that children are drinking or that they might be washing in and bathing in? Well most of the research has been done on what we call groundwater which is water that goes into the ground and then you drink but there needs to be more research also for the water that you're bathing in because obviously if you're jumping in rivers things like that you're drinking that water as well.
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