Arsenic contamination of groundwater in Bangladesh has been recognized as a major
public problem. The arsenic contamination was first identified in the tubewell water in 1993 …

Chronic arsenic toxicity (arsenicosis) due to drinking of arsenic contaminated ground water
is a major environmental health hazard throughout the world including India. A lot of new …

Context: Chronic arsenic toxicity (arsenicosis) is considered a serious public health menace
worldwide, as there is no specific, safe, and efficacious therapeutic management of …

Background: The global health impact and disease burden due to chronic arsenic toxicity
has not been well studied in West Bengal. Objective: To ascertain these, a scientific …

There is an urgent need for Bangladesh to identify the arsenic (As) contaminated tubewells
(TWs) in order to assess the health risks and initiate appropriate mitigation measures. This …

Background. Millions of people in Bangladesh, India, Taiwan, and Chile are consuming high
concentration of arsenic through drinking water, and thousands of them have already …

Consumption of arsenic contaminated water causes serious skin disease and cancer in a
significant number of exposed people. Chelating agents, consider an expensive therapy, are …

Chronic arsenic toxicity is associated with various clinical manifestations known as
arsenicosis. Pigmentation and keratosis are the specific skin lesion characteristics of chronic …

Arsenic contamination of groundwater in Bangladesh is of geogenic origin. In 1993, a few
tube-wells in the northern district of Bangladesh were found to be arsenic contaminated …

Arsenic toxicity, imposed mainly by arsenic-contaminated groundwater, is considered a
critical threat to global communal health, as there is no specific and proven conventional …