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Taipei, April 11 (CNA) According to a landmark study, Taiwan has the fourth highest rate of new traffic-related asthma cases among 194 countries, according to a landmark study, the equivalent of 420 new cases all the 100,000 children a year, according to a report from the British newspaper The Guardian.
Four million children suffer from asthma each year due to air pollution from cars and trucks, which equates to 11,000 new cases a day, reported the newspaper citing a study published in the journal Lancet Planetary Health Wednesday.
The report notes that the damage to children's health is not limited to China and India, where pollution levels are particularly high. In British and American cities, researchers have determined that road pollution is responsible for a quarter of new asthma cases in children.
By country, Kuwait has the highest rate of new cases of traffic-related asthma per capita among the 194 countries badyzed, or 550 cases per 100,000 children per year, followed by the United Arab Emirates (460 / 100,000). of Canada (450/100 000), according to research.
Children are particularly vulnerable to the toxic effects of air and it is also known that exposure leaves them with delayed growth of the lungs, the report said.
In response to the findings, the Taiwan Ministry of Health and Welfare said on Thursday that to reduce the negative effects of air pollution on health, it would continue to work with the Environmental Protection Administration ( LFS).
This will involve the issuance of alerts in case of air pollution when the air quality index monitoring network (AQI) of the air. EPA indicates an excessive amount of suspended particulates, especially PM2.5, and harmful gases in the air per cubic meter.
(By Chen Yun-lu and Evelyn Kao)
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