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04/02/2017 / By Vicki Batts

Children across California found to have higher lead poisoning than those in Flint, Michigan

If you thought the Flint, MI lead poisoning was bad, it turns out that numerous communities in California are even worse. Blood testing data gathered by Reuters has revealed that children from one Fresno community had blood lead levels up to three times higher than those seen in children from Flint. Even though California is […]

12/28/2016 / By Daniel Barker

New public health study discovers 3,000 US neighborhoods where children are suffering from lead poisoning

For most of us, the term “lead poisoning” immediately conjures up mental images of Flint, Michigan, where thousands of residents were exposed to unsafe levels of lead in their drinking water after the city switched water supplies in 2014. But Flint is far from being the only location in the U.S. threatened by lead contamination […]

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