Silent Killer Taking Toll – The Phnom Penh Post
Villagers emerge from the shade of their homes and gingerly roll up their sleeves, turning their palms upwards to reveal skin braided with dark lesions, ulcers and decaying tissue. They point to houses up and down the street where people have died of symptoms like theirs.
Arsenic, an invisible, odourless poison, has haunted this village in Kandal’s Koh Thom district. Most have been diagnosed with arsenic poisoning, and many have lost children or parents to it.
This article from The Phnom Penh Post describes the suffering caused by arsenic poisoning in Cambodia.
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- A man from Prek Russey village in Kandal’s Koh Thom district last week shows sores caused by arsenicosis on his foot. Heng Chivoan
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- A man pumps water contaminated with arsenic from a well near his house in Prek Russey village in Kandal province last week. Heng Chivoan