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Wide shot of Naples seaport with Castel dell' Ovo on the background2. Close up madonna statue with flowers3. Wide of pile of rubbish near a road with Naples skyscrapers in the background4. Exterior of building...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eNaples - January 21 2008 \u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide shot of Naples seaport with Castel dell' Ovo on the background\u003cbr/\u003e2. Close up madonna statue with flowers\u003cbr/\u003e3. Wide of pile of rubbish near a road with Naples skyscrapers in the background\u003cbr/\u003e4. Exterior of building housing the headquarters of the Campania regional government building\u003cbr/\u003e5. Wide of conference room \u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE: (Italian) Renato Pizzuti, Epidemiologist from Campania regional government:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The health situation of Campania's population has some negative indicators, such as the ones for mortality and - for certain kinds of diseases - of pathogenity, but we cannot automatically link that with the rubbish (crisis).\"\u003cbr/\u003eRome - January 18 2008\u003cbr/\u003e7. Wide shot of researchers working in the chemistry laboratory of the Superior Health Science Institute in Rome\u003cbr/\u003e8. Close up of researcher working on samples\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Alessandro Di Domenico, Director of Research at Superior Health Science Institute\u003cbr/\u003e\"Blood is tested for very important micro-contaminants, both organic and inorganic, such as dioxins and some heavy metals. Milk is also tested for the same contaminants, with particular attention to the organic ones which are more interesting in this case.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAcerra, 9 miles north of Naples - January 21 2008\u003cbr/\u003e10. Wide shot of road with sign indicating the edge of the town of Acerra\u003cbr/\u003e11. Wide of homes in Acerra\u003cbr/\u003e12. Wide shot of rubbish dump\u003cbr/\u003e13. Close up of rubbish\u003cbr/\u003e14. Wide shot of Mario Cannavacciuolo, a shepherd, feeding his sheep dogs on his pasture land with factory in the background in Acerra \u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE (Italian)  Mario Cannavacciuolo, shepherd:\u003cbr/\u003e\"My brother died, the flock died, we are full of debts. The little money they (the authorities) gave us was not enough even to pay the debts\".\u003cbr/\u003e16. Wide shot of Mario approaching the sheep with an incinerator in the background\u003cbr/\u003e17. Mario with sheep\u003cbr/\u003e18. Close up of sheep's wool on the grass and incinerator on the background\u003cbr/\u003e19. Close up of sheep\u003cbr/\u003e20. Orsola Cannavacciuolo walking and entering her home in Acerra \u003cbr/\u003e21. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Orsola Cannavacciuolo, daughter of Vincenzo Cannavacciuolo who died \u003cbr/\u003e\"My father died in the same way as his sheep did, I mean that the degenerative process was the same, he started to limp, then he couldn't get out of bed, and then he started to die, in one month my father was dead.\"\u003cbr/\u003e22.  Alessandro Cannavacciuolo, son of Mario Cannavacciuolo, showing a poster with pictures of sick and deformed sheep\u003cbr/\u003e23. Close up of picture showing a dead sheep with handwriting on the background reading \"Dioxin\"\u003cbr/\u003e24. Close up copies of newspaper articles, title reading: \"Dioxin sheep, the railway halted.\"\u003cbr/\u003e25. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Orsola Cannavacciuolo, Vincenzo Cannavacciuolo's daughter\u003cbr/\u003e\"In the farms near our land where the sheep were put out to pasture, they continue to produce vegetables which are sold both to Naples and the general market in all Italy. So wonder why the authorities do not want to save the lives of our people?\"\u003cbr/\u003e26. Close up farm tractor\u003cbr/\u003e27. Wide of farm tractor working next to dump\u003cbr/\u003eAuthorities in Naples are making preparations to undertake a research programme to test residents for dioxins, as the continuing rubbish-collection crisis raises health fears in the region.\u003cbr/\u003eOne month after the beginning of the crisis, tons of stinking refuse lie uncollected in the streets of Naples bringing concern that dioxins will be released when the rubbish is incinerated.\u003cbr/\u003eDioxins have been proven to cause several diseases and a recent study by the World Health Organisation shows that people living in the Campania region are less healthy than those elsewhere in Italy. \u003cbr/\u003eMortality, especially from some forms of cancer, is higher in the areas around Naples where the garbage crisis is at its worst.\u003cbr/\u003eDoctors from the region gathered at a seminar in Naples on Monday to learn how the tests will be conducted.\u003cbr/\u003eBut, according to one epidemiologist from the Campania Region, Renato Pizzuti, the poor health of those living in the region cannot automatically linked to rubbish.\u003cbr/\u003e\"The health situation of Campania's population has some negative indicators, such as the ones for mortality and - for certain kinds of diseases - of pathogenity, but we cannot automatically link that with the rubbish (crisis),\" Pizzuti said.\u003cbr/\u003eThe decision to undertake the testing programme was made last week with the aim of establishing if the increased environmental pollution - due to rubbish decay and combustion - had any effect on the population and increased risks to health. \u003cbr/\u003eThe results will be also used to interpret the distribution of diseases in the region.\u003cbr/\u003eTests, which will start in mid February, will be done on blood samples of 780 residents and on maternal milk of 50 mothers randomly selected in 13 municipalities of the Naples and Caserta provinces.\u003cbr/\u003eThe study, the largest of its kind ever conducted in Italy, is being run by the Italian Superior Health Institute - the leading technical and scientific public body of the Italian National Health Service - with the collaboration of the National Council for Research and the Campania regional authorities.\u003cbr/\u003eAlessandro Di Domenico, Director of Research at Superior Health Institute, said last week that tests are meant to identify the presence of deadly contaminants in people who have been exposed to pollution.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Blood is tested for very important micro-contaminants, both organic and non organic, such as dioxins and some heavy metals\" he said; \"Milk is also tested for the same contaminants with particular attention to the organic ones which are more interesting in this case\".\u003cbr/\u003eNine miles north of Naples, in the middle of the so-called \"triangle of death\" is an incinerator which is about to open and a dump which, although previously closed by authorities, is believed to be still used illegally.\u003cbr/\u003eThe town of Acerra is home to the Cannavacciuolo family, who live next door to a factory, the Montefibre, which once produced car interiors but is now closed.\u003cbr/\u003eTheir sheep pasture, which lies next to the local dump, was once grazed by more than 3-thousand sheep, they say. Now only two sick animals survive.\u003cbr/\u003eThe others, which gave birth to deformed offspring, have all died. \u003cbr/\u003eTheir sheep dogs survive, perhaps because they didn't eat the grass, but now have no flock to lead.\u003cbr/\u003eVincenzo Cannavacciuolo, the shepherd here, died of cancer in April 2000.\u003cbr/\u003eHis brother Mario now faces mounting debts.\u003cbr/\u003e\"My brother died, the flock died, we are full of debts\", he said; \"The little money they (the authorities) gave us was not enough even to pay the debts,\" he told AP Television.\u003cbr/\u003e\"My father died in the same way as his sheep did\", she said; \"I mean that the degenerative process was the same, he started to limp, then he couldn't get out of bed, and then he started to die. My father died in one month,\" said Vincenzo's daughter, Orsola.\u003cbr/\u003eTests on Vincenzo's body revealed the presence of 255 picograms of dioxins in the blood - a staggering amount compared to the maximum amount allowed by the World Health Organisation in industrial areas which is just 10 picograms.\u003cbr/\u003e\"In the farms near our land where the sheep were put out to pasture, they continue to produce vegetables which are sold both to Naples and the general market in all Italy. So I wonder why the authorities do not want to save the lives of our people.\"\u003cbr/\u003eOn Monday Italy's new 'trash czar' Gianni De Gennaro announced he would reopen a handful of old dumps in the next few days to make space for the rubbish, but it seems  that authorities remain unable to deal even with the area's daily garbage output.\u003cbr/\u003eDe Gennaro, a former national police chief who was bought in two weeks ago to deal with the crisis, said collectors were now able to dispose of more than 6-thousand tons of garbage per day.\u003cbr/\u003eThat is less than the 7,200 produced daily in Naples and the surrounding Campania region, and still leaves on the streets a backlog of 250-thousand tons that has been piling up since collection came to a near halt in December, he said.\u003cbr/\u003eOfficials and residents say the crisis stems from the Neapolitan Mafia's control of garbage disposal and the government's inability to fight it or\u003cbr/\u003eguarantee safe waste 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