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Article: MILLIONS IN CHINA NEED IODINE RAMPANT RETARDATION TRACED TO DEFICIENCY.(News)
- Article from:
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- June 4, 1996
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Like a thousand other villages in the rural archipelago of China, this collection of black-tiled roofs and dusty courtyards looks from a distance like just another smudge on the sea of wheat fields blanketing the central China plain.
But soon after you walk under the canopy of poplar trees that shades the neat rows of houses, the curious and childlike faces begin to appear.
They are the faces of China's cretins, the most visible evidence of a generation silently ravaged by the absence of iodine in their diet.
They come with halting gaits down dirt paths or they peer out from darkened doorways with searching, innocent eyes and glowing smiles ...