The Indian village fighting fluoride poisoning with vitamins and clean water
by Joshua Carroll in Tapatjuri from on (#RZ7G)
A pioneering project to cure children crippled by fluoride poisoning holds hope for tens of millions of people
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For years the people of Tapatjuri, a remote village in northeast India, thought evil spirits were tormenting them. It was the only way they could explain why hundreds of people in their community were crippled, with bones bent so badly out of shape that many could not wash, eat, or leave their houses without help.
