生活在我国西南地区的一些百姓,几百年来遭受着一种基本上只能预防但无法治愈的疾病的折磨。这种被称为燃煤污染型氟中毒的疾病,是一种典型的地球化学性疾病。卫生部的调查资料显示,截至2003年底,我国燃煤污染型地方性氟中毒病区人口超过2597万。对燃煤污染型氟中毒追踪研究二十余年的中科院环境地球化学国家重点实验室研究员郑宝山,在近期主持的国家自然科学基金重点项目中,对 Some people living in southwestern China have for centuries been suffering from a disease that is essentially preventable but incurable. This disease, known as coal-burning fluorosis, is a typical geochemical disease. Ministry of Health survey data show that as of the end of 2003, China’s coal-fired endemic fluorosis ward population of more than 25.97 million. Zheng Baoshan, a researcher at the State Key Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, who has been tracing more than 20 years of research on coal-contaminated fluorosis, recently held a key project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China