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Michael Azebi

April 18, 2022

SPECIAL: How Bayelsa oil-producing communities defy public health hazards, preserve dead bodies indoors

Scientific studies have warned that undue exposure to preservatives formalin could be responsible for various types of cancer in both humans and animals.

A view of the Swali market alongside the river Nun, in Yenagoa, the capital of Nigeria's oil state of Bayelsa November 27, 2012. Akintunde Akinleye/Reuters