Millions of people in Bangladesh have been poisoned with arsenic, due to well-meaning efforts of international development groups.

Apparently, this is not a new problem or newly acknowledged problem, but a new report out by the British medical journal The Lancet finds that 77 million people in Bangladesh are exposed to arsenic in their drinking water. This takes years if not decades off of millions of people’s lives. In fact, the study found that 1 out of every 5 deaths in the population group were due to elevated arsenic levels in these people’s bodies.

“It could be the worst mass poisoning in history. And the terrible irony is that it may all be due to an idealistic push to clean up drinking water for some of the world’s poorest people,” Brian Walker of CNN reports.

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