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Article: Soviet kids bald - acid rain cited
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 13, 1988
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MOSCOW (UPI) Soviet specialists believe that acid rain from
across the Polish and Romanian borders may be responsible for a
mysterious illness that has caused 113 children in the city of
Chernovtsy to lose their hair.
The Communist Party daily newspaper Pravda, quoting Health
Minister Yevgeny Chazov, said the strange disease that affects the
central nervous system and causes shedding of hair has struck mostly
fair-haired blue-eyed children between the ages of six months and 14
years in the Ukrainian city.
Hallucinations and irritability are other symptoms of the
disease. Most of the children are being treated in hospitals in
Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, and in Moscow.
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