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Battery boom drives Bangladesh lead poisoning epidemic / 37QG49D
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Communities in Bangladesh are fighting against informal battery recycling factories blamed for lead poisoning. Junayed Akter is 12 years old but the toxic lead coursing through his veins has left him with the diminutive stature of someone several years younger. He's one of 35 million children -- around 60 percent of all children in the South Asian nation -- who have dangerously high levels of lead exposure. The causes are varied, but his mother blames his maladies on a since-shuttered factory that hastily scrapped and recycled old vehicle batteries for profit, in the process poisoning the air and the earth of his small village. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES ARRANGED IN SEQUENCES