Vehicle Pollution Causes 4 Million New Child Asthma Cases Every Year

Yale e360
Apr 12, 2019, 12:38 pm84 pts
Four million children develop asthma every year as a result of air pollution from cars and trucks, equivalent to 11,000 new cases a day, a landmark study has found. Most of the new cases occur in places where pollution levels are already below the World Health Organization limit, suggesting toxic air is even…

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