Pathanamthitta is ayyappan's abode, but kerala's stone quarry country is hell for villagers


Pathanamthitta is ayyappan's abode, but kerala's stone quarry country is hell for villagers

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Dr. Jagadeesh, a senior official at the Kerala Directorate of Health Services, says that quarrying is known to cause respiratory diseases, nasal infections, catarrh, silicosis, chronic


cough, skin allergies and that some research shows that long-term exposure to quarry dust, could even cause cancer.