Lead-Based Paint

Lead Poisoning Potential High In Children Living Near Toxic Waste Sites In Middle- And Lower-Income Countries

By Susan Scutti | May 06, 2013 10:44 AM EDT

The effects of lead exposure have long been recorded. In 70 AD, the Greek physician Pedanius Dioscorides wrote in De Materia Medica that after exposure to lead, “the mind gives way.”

Children in northern Zamfara

MSF Urges Nigeria President to Act on Deadly Lead Poisoning

By Tim Cocks | Nov 15, 2012 09:22 AM EST

Doctors Without Borders said Nigeria had failed to deliver on promises to tackle a deadly lead poisoning epidemic and called on president Goodluck Jonathan to intervene.

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