Chinese school is struggling with ill students

changzhou - Hundreds of pupils from a school in the Chinese city of Changzhou are seriously ill has moved since the school for a place next to a former chemical plant.

Pupils and teachers of the school for foreign languages, since December complain about a bad smell coming from the former factory. According to local authorities cleaned the floor at that time and meets the air quality is now up to national standards. But the state broadcaster CCTV reported that, however, toxins and heavy metals in the soil and groundwater at the site. The cancer-chlorobenzene in the soil would be 100. 000 times the permitted amount.

Of the 641 students surveyed physicians, 493 had health problems, reports the Chinese newspaper South China Morning News Monday. That bronchitis concerned, inter alia, anomalies in the blood and the thyroid gland and in some cases even lymphomas and leukemia.