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The current pollution, creates more and new allergies/diseases?


With the pollution in water, air and soil, these factors are producing new allergies or diseases in the people?
Do you know any example?

The Los Angeles Times reported Friday that New Orleans doctors are seeing a rise in what locals are calling "Katrina cough," believed to be caused by allergies to the mold and dust resulting from the storm.
Air Pollution:Common examples include carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), and nitrogen oxides produced by industry and motor vehicles. Ozone and smog are created as nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons react to sunlight
water pollution affects oceans and inland bodies of water. Examples include organic and inorganic chemicals, heavy metals, petrochemicals, chloroform, and bacteria. Water pollution may also occur in the form of thermal pollution and the depletion of dissolved oxygen.
soil contamination often occurs when chemicals are released by spill or underground storage tank leakage. Contaminants include hydrocarbons, heavy metals, MTBE, herbicides, pesticides and chlorinated hydrocarbons. Often leads to water pollution via surface runoff and leaching to groundwater.
radioactive contamination, added in the wake of 20th-century discoveries in atomic physics. (See alpha emitters and actinides in the environment.)
noise pollution, which encompasses roadway noise, aircraft noise, industrial noise as well as high-intensity sonar.
light pollution, includes light trespass, over-illumination and astronomical interference.
visual pollution, which can refer to the presence of overhead power lines, highway billboards, scarred landforms (as from strip mining), open storage of junk or municipal solid waste.

4.6 million people die each year from causes directly attributable to air pollution

Ironic isn't it? All the things that were invented or created were for the good of mankind,they call it progress.And most all that good is the very cause of the pollution that is killing us! Report It

I don't know about new diseases, but it's well known that high areas of pollution predispose people to a higher incidence of allergies and respiratory illnesses such as asthma.

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