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Article: CHINA FIGHTS RETARDATION HEALTH AUTHORITIES COME LATE TO CATASTROPHE CAUSED BY DEFICIENCY OF IODINE.(News/National/International)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- June 4, 1996
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Byline: Patrick E. Tyler The New York Times
DAXIN, China -- China, renowned for its success in fighting disease, is belatedly campaigning against a preventable medical catastrophe that it somehow overlooked.
The public health ministry estimates that more than 10 million cases of mental retardation - including hundreds of thousands with the overt handicaps of cretinism - are a result of iodine shortages during brain development.
But even more alarming is the recent evidence that for want of a simple chemical in their diets, much larger numbers of Chinese had their intelligence lowered to some degree, say Chinese and Western scientists.
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