Asia and Africa have the most polluted air in the world

The report from the International Agency for research on cancer was today formally presented. Is the formalization of data released last week. The air we breathe is carcinogenic.

The Agency points the finger at several activity sectors that pollute: transport, industry, agriculture and domestic causes how to cook or heat homes.

Dana Loomis, the International Agency of research on cancer, shows us the most problematic areas of the globe:

"There is a large concentration of pollution through Asia, but also in Africa, which may be surprising. In China and India, most of what we see is due to coal and all the industrial development that is taking place in these countries. Here, North Africa is mostly desert and sparsely populated and pollution particles we see here come from desert dust carried by the wind-which is quite different from the pollution caused by industry ".

The global data available to the Agency show that in 2010, 223 thousand people died of lung cancer by atmospheric pollution-related causes.

The World Health Organization (who) alert Governments to the need for a collective public health action to solve the problem.

Full report - (English)

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