BJ not alone in pollution

Beijing is not the only Asian city with serious air pollution. The Chinese capital is just one of hundreds of cities, largely in Asia, where poisonous air is now the fastest growing cause of death in urban populations, The Guardian reported. In the past few months there have been acute air pollution incidents reported in Bangladesh, Iran, Afghanistan, Nepal, and Pakistan. The annual Global Burden of Disease report says air pollution causes 1.2m deaths a year in east Asia, and 712,000 in south Asia.

據英國《衛報》報道，北京并非唯一一個空氣嚴重污染的亞洲城市。在數百個城市，有毒空氣正加速成為人類健康殺手，而這些城市多分布在亞洲。過去幾個月內，孟加拉國、伊朗、阿富汗、尼泊爾、巴基斯坦等國家都先后發生過嚴重的空氣污染事件。全球疾病負擔的年度報告顯示，東亞每年有120萬人死于空氣污染，南亞則有71.2萬。

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