PATANCHERU, India — When researchers analyzed vials of treated wastewater taken from a plant where about 90 Indian drug factories dump their residues, they were shocked. Enough of a single, powerful antibiotic was being spewed into one stream each day to treat every person in a city of 90,000. And it wasn't just ciprofloxacin being detected.
World's Highest Drug Pollution Levels Found In Indian Stream
The Huffington Post News Editors, Huffington Post
Mon, 01/26/2009 - 8:31am
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