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A study done in a city in Chile where residents were exposed to high levels of arsenic in drinking water between 1959 and 1971, shows that babies born to mothers consuming arsenic have many times the normal risk of developing devastating lung diseases including cancer.
 
Arsenic is a naturally occurring substance and a known poison. It affects the water world-wide but is regulated in public water supplies in the United States. People who use private wells, however, are responsible for their own testing.

Arsenic in moms, lung disease in offspring

United Press International - 3/28/2006 8:13 PM

Researchers working in northern Chile discovered the chance of a child developing bronchiectasis, a rare and often fatal lung disease, is 46 times higher if the child`s mother drank arsenic-contaminated water while pregnant. In addition, adults exposed to arsenic in utero or as children were also six times more likely to die of lung cancer than Chileans unexposed to the element.
 
'This study is the first to provide evidence that early life exposures may result in effects manifesting themselves in adults,' said lead author Allan Smith, a professor of epidemiology at University of California Berkeley`s School of Public Health. 'There`s no other toxic exposure occurring to young children or mothers that causes such marked increase in mortality in young adult
 
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