Volume 403, Issue 10437
27 April1 2024
WORLD REPORT The exposure of residents to lead in drinking water caused a national outcry, prompting requirements to update infrastructure and tighten water quality standards. Susan Jaffe reports.
“Flint is making an impact beyond Flint”, said Mona Hanna-Attisha, a Flint paediatrician who collected data on children’s lead blood levels in 2015. “We’re sharing those big lessons—the need to respect science, the need to invest in prevention, the need to pay attention to things like infrastructure and inequities, but also the really amazing lesson of doing something about it.”. [Continued here]
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