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...exported e-waste ends up in Guiyu, China, a recycling hub where peasants heat circuit boards over coal fires to recover lead, while others use acid to burn off bits of gold. According to reports from nearby Shantou University, Guiyu has the highest level of cancer-causing dioxins in the world and elevated rates of miscarriages. "You see women sitting by the fireplace burning laptop adapters, with rivers of ash pouring out of houses," says Jim Puckett, founder of Basel Action Network (BAN), an e-waste watchdog. "We're dumping on the rest of the world...
...Chinese health officials ordered six kinds of lipstick from two Shantou-based companies-including a strawberry-flavored variety-pulled from stores after they were found to contain SUDAN RED, an industrial dye known to cause cancer in lab animals. The dye, used to color petrol and floor polish, has also shown up in some Chinese chili powders and eggs...
...human early-warning system in the shifting viral landscape of southern China and now southeast Asia, where bird flu has been endemic since the end of 2003. Although Beijing is traditionally secretive about disease within its borders, Guan's network of mainland Chinese contacts and his secondary position at Shantou University in Guangdong province have helped his team gather biological samples from more than 100,000 birds in the region over the past five years, more than any other scientist. It's hard, dirty work--every day researchers pick through less than hygienic live poultry markets, persuading traders to allow...
Shenzhen has been China's boomtown since 1980, when Peking designated it a so-called Special Economic Zone. Though three other border cities in south China--Zhuhai, Shantou and Xiamen--also received unprecedented freedom to attract foreign money and technology, none have grown so dramatically as Shenzhen. Its population has swelled from 30,000 to about 380,000 since 1980. Shenzhen has signed more than 150 foreign-investment agreements, worth over $700 million. Some 400 businesses call Shenzhen home, with another 300 on the way. Wages average $79 a month, nearly double the rate in China's other cities...
...research studies warn, however, that widespread human infection may be only a matter of time. A report published in Nature last week by scientists at the University of Hong Kong and Shantou University shows that the H5N1 virus has evolved rapidly since it first infected humans in Hong Kong in 1997, killing six. The result was the powerful strain of H5N1 that caused this winter's unusually widespread and lethal outbreak. Another recent study shows that the latest strains of the virus proved the most deadly to lab mice-raising worries that H5N1 is also becoming increasingly dangerous to humans...