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Coal burning having a devastating impact on rural Chinese
• AFPZhang Huaixiang's thin wasted frame dangles from his wooden crutches, his bowed legs swelled by a disease contracted from a lifelong reliance on coal, unable to walk properly due to the rotting of his bones and joints from fluoride poisoning.