Interactive: Air Pollution Is Affecting Every Part of Your Body

(It's National Pollution Prevention Day today. FIT is republishing this story to create awareness around the issue.)

The grey in the air pierces your skin, enters the body and passes through the bloodstream to all — literally all organs inside. While the lungs are obvious victims, the damage runs way beyond. Brain, heart, skin, kidneys and even your fertility — nothing is spared.

To know just how the pollution is affecting these organs, click on the different body parts in this interactive and read the illnesses and diseases that appear below.

Producer: Saakhi Chadha

Developer: Achintya De

UI/UX: Shubham Singh

Illustration: Arnica Kala

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