Lead in the Inner Cities
By Howard Mielke
Policies to reduce children's exposure to lead may be overlooking a major source of lead in the environment
This Article From Issue
January-February 1999
Volume 87, Number 1
Page 62
DOI: 10.1511/1999.16.62
In the middle of the 1970s, U.S. health officials identified what some called a "silent epidemic." They were referring to childhood lead poisoning, a problem that is easily overlooked and underappreciated. Of all of the metal-poisoning episodes to date, none has come close in sheer numbers.
Photograph courtesy of Howard W. Mielke.
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