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One of the latest casualties has been the CDC’s lead poisoning response team at the National Center for Environmental Health, which can no longer help schools in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with their lead ...
Milwaukee announced Monday the temporary closure of two more schools as the city works to address a lead crisis in its public ...
Sen. Tammy Baldwin and Rep. Gwen Moore called the layoffs of federal lead poisoning experts "haphazard" and urged their ...
TRAVERSE CITY, MI – A bald eagle suffering from extensive injuries and lead poisoning is showing early signs of improvement ...
The 12206 ZIP code, which encompasses West Hill, Beverwyck and Upper Washington Avenue, has one of the state's highest concentrations of childhood lead poisoning. A little boy peers through a window ...
Cuts to the CDC's branch responsible for investigating and preventing lead poisoning has brought multiple efforts to help ...
Kennedy Jr. said Thursday. CNN reported Wednesday that experts in the CDC’s lead poisoning prevention and surveillance branch who had been helping the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, address a ...
Most of Milwaukee's schools were built before 1978, local health officials said in their initial request to the CDC for help, before lead-based paint was banned in the U.S. Inspections of some schools ...