'Slow Poison' - India, UP - March - April 2008 www.alexmasi.co.uk

Vishal, (right) a 12-year-old boy from Chandenamal village, pop. 1500, Muzaffarnagar District, Uttar Pradesh, India, located along the banks of the severely polluted Krishni river, is sitting on the floor of his classroom while being taught a math lesson, on Friday, Mar. 28, 2008. Vishal is affected by a neurological disease since the age of three, and while his mind is not fully developed, he also suffers of a partial paralysis of his body's left side. The doctor overseeing Vishal believes the cause of the disease to be strictly related to contaminated water consumption during his childhood.

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Vishal, (right) a 12-year-old boy from Chandenamal village, pop. 1500, Muzaffarnagar District, Uttar Pradesh, India, located along the banks of the severely polluted Krishni river, is sitting on the floor of his classroom while being taught a math lesson, on Friday, Mar. 28, 2008. Vishal is affected by a neurological disease since the age of three, and while his mind is not fully developed, he also suffers of a partial paralysis of his body's left side. The doctor overseeing Vishal believes the cause of the disease to be strictly related to contaminated water consumption during his childhood.