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Topic: lead poisoning

Baby girl eating apple sauce from pouch (Getty Images/Cavan Images)

More fruit pouches recalled over lead

Joy Saha
Faucet with Water Drip (Getty Images)

The long shadow of lead contamination

Jenny Bower - Undark
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Childhood lead poisoning

Claudia Lopez-Lloreda - Massive Science
In a photo from March 10, 2017, work continues on the water replacement lines in Flint, Mich. (AP Photo/Chris Ehrmann) (AP)

How to address America’s lead crisis

Qi Bing, Maura C. Allaire - The Conversation
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Newark remains a city of widespread urban blight and neglect. (Bob Hennelly)

The economics of racist neglect

Bob Hennelly
FILE - This Feb. 5, 2016, file photo, shows the Flint River in Flint, Mich. Michigan environmental officials announced Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017, that Flint's water system no longer has levels of lead exceeding the federal limit. The finding by the Department of Environmental Quality is good news for a city whose 100,000 residents have grappled with the man-made water crisis since 2014. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File) (AP)

2% of US water systems are like Flint's

Laura Pangallozzi - The Conversation
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Toxic lead in fidget spinners

Shefali Luthra - KFF Health News
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Lead in 20 percent baby foods

Lydia Zuraw - KFF Health News
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In this Aug. 3, 2016 photo, Joseph Russell, 2, rides his tricycle outside his home at the West Calumet Housing Complex in East Chicago, Ind. More than 1,000 residents of a public housing complex in northwest Indiana have been left in a state of panic and uncertainty since authorities informed them last month that their homes need to be destroyed because of a serious lead contamination threat. (Jonathan Miano/The Times via AP) (AP)

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Trump and truth: Past lessons

Paul Rosenberg
(AP/Carlos Osorio)

The Flint crisis continues

Jaimee A. Swift
Water is distributed at the Lincoln Park United Methodist Church in Flint, Mich, Feb. 3, 2015. (AP/Paul Sancya)

David Rosner, Gerald Markowitz - TomDispatch.com
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Brockovich sounds the alarm

Sarah Burris
Steve Doocy, Rick Snyder (Credit: Fox News)

Making lead "better"?

Scott Eric Kaufman
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (AP/Carlos Osorio)

Jack Mirkinson
Bottled water is picked up from the Food Bank of Eastern Michigan to deliver to a school after elevated lead levels were found in the city's water in Flint, Michigan December 16, 2015. (Reuters/Rebecca Cook)

Austerity is poison

Elias Isquith
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Lindsay Abrams
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