What will pollution do to us?

First of all this article talks about how air-pollution affects human body, the research show us British population who are victims of Sahara dust carried through the wind to UK joining to the pollutants emitted in the country.

UK has the maximum level of air-pollution; this affects everybody but especially children and older people. The advice for people with respiratory disease is: avoid strenuous physical activity, like go outside in the afternoon, less when levels are very high; but if symptoms like sore eyes, thickly cough and dry throat appears in “healthy” people they should stay at home as much as possible.

The mainly reason why air-pollution affects health is because we are breathing little particles which go deeper into our lungs and infect them. The effects in some cases appear in long-term but commonly appear in short-term. The results of pollution are: heart disease, stroke, lung cancer and acute respiratory infections in children.

The World Organization of Health -WHO- in his recent report calculated that seven million people died because of air-pollution in 2012. The main cities with high levels of air-pollution nowadays are Beijing and Mexico City.

Opinion

Nowadays air-pollution is a serious problem for the world health. Few years ago we don’t care about it but today many disease and deaths are being caused by air-pollution. The effects on human body are too dangerous, especially for our children.

Unfortunately we can’t stay always in home for that reason we are always exposed. We should take actions in order to reduce this problem in progress like

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April 2nd 2014. 11.04 GMT. ¿What will pollution do to us?. BBC News. Taken from http://www.bbc.com/news/health-26850177