Environmental & Analytical Toxicology

Ubuoh EA

Biography

Worldwide, more than three billion people still burn wood, dung, coal and other traditional fuels inside their homes and the resultant indoor air pollution is responsible for more than 1.5 million deaths a year - mostly of young children and their mothers who spend most of their time at home and in the kitchen (WHO,2010). A number of scholars such as Mudway et al. (2005), and Saha et al. (2005) inferred that long term exposure to high levels of smoke from burning biomass fuels leads to a host of respiratory diseases.

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