{"id":27482,"date":"2008-10-15T09:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T09:27:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-05-14T18:37:49","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T18:37:49","slug":"2482-pollution-cloud-hangs-over-cairo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/2482-pollution-cloud-hangs-over-cairo\/","title":{"rendered":"Pollution cloud hangs over Cairo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><br \/>\n<meta name=\"ProgId\" content=\"Word.Document\"><br \/>\n<meta name=\"Generator\" content=\"Microsoft Word 11\"><br \/>\n<meta name=\"Originator\" content=\"Microsoft Word 11\"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>\n \n  Normal\n  0\n  \n  \n  false\n  false\n  false\n  \n   \n   \n   \n   \n   \n   \n  \n  MicrosoftInternetExplorer4\n \n<\/xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]>\n\n\n<style>\nst1\\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) }\n<\/style>\n\n\n<![endif]--><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n<!--\n \/* Font Definitions *\/\n @font-face\n\t{\n\tpanose-1:2 1 6 0 3 1 1 1 1 1;}\n@font-face\n\t{\"\\@SimSun\";\n\tpanose-1:2 1 6 0 3 1 1 1 1 1;}\n \/* Style Definitions *\/\n p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal\n\t{mso-style-parent:\"\";\n\tmargin:0in;\n\tmargin-bottom:.0001pt;\n\tfont-size:12.0pt;\"Times New Roman\";}\na:link, span.MsoHyperlink\n\t{color:blue;\n\ttext-decoration:underline;\n\ttext-underline:single;}\na:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed\n\t{color:purple;\n\ttext-decoration:underline;\n\ttext-underline:single;}\np\n\t{\n\tmargin-right:0in;\n\tmargin-left:0in;\n\tfont-size:12.0pt;\"Times New Roman\";}\n@page Section1\n\t{size:8.5in 11.0in;\n\tmargin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in;}\ndiv.Section1\n\t{page:Section1;}\n-->\n<\/style>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 10]>\n\n\n<style>\n \/* Style Definitions *\/\n table.MsoNormalTable\n\t{mso-style-name:\"Table Normal\";\n\tmso-style-parent:\"\";\n\tfont-size:10.0pt;\"Times New Roman\";\n\tmso-fareast-\"Times New Roman\";}\n<\/style>\n\n\n<![endif]-->      <\/meta><br \/>\n<\/meta><br \/>\n<\/meta><br \/>\n<\/meta>\n<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Last year, the cloud appeared for 20 hours, compared with more than 100 hours in 1999,&rdquo; Sa&rsquo;oud&nbsp; said. &ldquo;Nevertheless, efforts to combat pollution should continue. Otherwise it might last 100 to 150 hours next year or the year after, triggering serious health concerns.&quot;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The seasonal cloud of pollutants, which causes respiratory problems and has a noticeably adverse effect on health, is attributed to a number of human and environmental factors. They include the 2.1 million cars in the Egyptian capital, smoke from farmers&rsquo; annual burning of rice hay and the city&#8217;s physical location between two elevated areas.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Cairo in general is witnessing an increase in the number of bronchial asthma and respiratory obstruction patients, and respiratory system tumours because of pollution,&rdquo; said Mahmoud Abdel Majeed, head of the Abbasiya  Chest Diseases  Hospital, adding that children and the elderly were most at risk. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irinnews.org\/report.aspx?ReportId=80831\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">full story<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &ldquo;black cloud&rdquo; &#8212; a mass of polluted air that hangs over Cairo from October to November &#8212; is less severe this year, but efforts to reduce the pollution that leads to the phenomenon should continue if a health disaster is to be avoided, Ahmed Abul Sa&#8217;oud, undersecretary at Egypt&rsquo;s environment ministry, told the United Nations-affiliated humanitarian-news agency IRIN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_has_post_settings":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"country":[],"class_list":["post-27482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v26.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pollution cloud hangs over Cairo | Dialogue Earth<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The &ldquo;black cloud&rdquo; 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