Reuters
While the millions of deaths from well-known communicable diseases often make headlines, indoor air pollution remains a silent and unreported killer," the United Nations (news - web sites)' agency said.
Nearly half of the world cooks using fuels like dung, wood, agricultural residues and coal, which give off a poisonous cocktail that "more than doubles the risk of respiratory illness such as bronchitis and pneumonia," it said in a joint statement with the U.N. Development Program (UNDP).
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