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FILE - In this Wednesday, June. 9, 2010 file photo, men walk amongst the graves of children killed by lead poisoning, in Yangalma Village Gusau, Nigeria. Twenty-eight children have died from lead poisoning from illegal gold mining in a remote west-central village, Nigerian health officials said, while doctors still are treating thousands from an earlier outbreak. Dozens more children are sick in the Rafi area of Niger state and action must be taken quickly if they are not to suffer irreversible neurological damage, Michelle Chouinard, Nigeria director for Doctors Without Borders, told The Associated Press on Friday, May. 15, 2015. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba File)
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