Air Pollution Kills 7 Million People a Year, WHO Reports

Toxic levels of pollution led to the early deaths of an estimated 7 million people annually, according to a new World Health Organization report.

Nine of 10 people around the world are exposed to dangerously high levels of pollutants that can lead to cancer and cardiovascular diseases, according to the study, which drew off the most-recent 2016 data. Air pollution levels were the highest in the eastern Mediterranean and southeast Asia, where in some areas airborne toxics were five times WHO limits and disproportionately affected the poor and most vulnerable.

Source: World Health Organization

Source: World Health Organization

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