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Fluorosis<\/span><\/h2>\n

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Indian villagers crippled by fluoride<\/strong><\/h3>\n

By Omer Farooq<\/p>\n

BBC correspondent in Hyderabad<\/p>\n

This is a story of a land where excess fluoride has turned the ground water into a slow poison, crippling at least 10,000 people and leaving hundreds of thousand of others in constant misery.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is the story of Yadadri Bhongiri is one of the 33 Districts of Telangana, one of the poorest and most drought-prone districts of Telangana in southern India.<\/p>\n

The seriousness of the problem can be measured by the fact that the groundwater has 10 to 12 parts per million (ppm) of fluoride in contrast to a maximum permitted level of just 1.5 ppm.<\/p>\n

In the dust-filled hamlets and villages hardly 100 kilometers (60 miles) from the state capital Hyderabad there are many living examples of the havoc caused by fluoride.<\/p>\n

Shocking<\/strong><\/h3>\n

People with paralysing bone diseases, stooped backs, crooked hands and legs, deformed teeth, blindness and other handicaps are a common sight.<\/p>\n

The most shocking and sad image of this suffering is Ramaswamy.<\/p>\n

At 18-years of age, when other youths are full of enthusiasm for life, Ramaswamy looks to be hardly five-years-old, with a physique completely devastated by the effects of fluoride<\/p>\n

He is so weak that he cannot walk and weighs barely 15 kilograms (less than 34 lbs). He is blind and intellectually challenged\u00a0<\/span>.<\/p>\n

He cannot recognise his own name and he cannot even eat by himself.<\/p>\n

“We have done all we could have done,” says his father Ramalingaiah, himself a victim of fluoride in Anneparti village.<\/p>\n

‘Dreadful fate’<\/strong><\/h3>\n

“Now it is up to the God and government to do something to relieve our sufferings,” he says with misty eyes.<\/p>\n

FLUORIDE FACTS<\/strong><\/h3>\n