Pollution of water sources from gold mining activity has harmed the health of most of the residents of a central Honduran valley, where skin and eye ailments and even newborn deaths are frequent, local environmental activists say.
"Eighty of every 100 inhabitants suffer skin or eye problems due to the pollution of water sources" in the Siria Valley, east of Tegucigalpa, Juan Almendares, coordinator of the Mother Earth Movement, said Wednesday, attributing the situation to mining activity in the area through 2008.
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/health/2012/08/02/honduran-communities-suffer-effects-mine-pollution/
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