More than 4,500 children under age 6 tested positive for lead poisoning in Wisconsin last year. It has no overt symptoms.

Dive after dive, lead kept showing up—this river’s loaded with toxic metal, and it’s way worse than we thought.

Lead in the home is scary for young families, but St. Louis County public health is working to help families lower the risk ...

Sen. Tammy Baldwin and Rep. Gwen Moore called the layoffs of federal lead poisoning experts "haphazard" and urged their ...

That's not just a Milwaukee Public Schools problem.

In the Fall of 2024, some households were notified that there either may be, or are, lead water pipes supplying water to their homes. The notification is appreciated. The problem is supposed to be ...

Up to half a million children in the United States suffer from dangerous levels of lead contamination, according to the CDC.

Two days later, asked about the cutting of the CDC’s lead poisoning prevention and surveillance branch, US Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested that ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has rejected a request from health officials in Milwaukee for help with a lead poisoning investigation, after Health and Human Services Secretary ...

Scully said signs of lead poisoning can go unnoticed. "Some of the symptoms, especially among children, could be stomach aches, irritability, learning disabilities, developmental delays," she added.

The Milwaukee Health Department asked for help with the lead poisoning investigation unfolding at Milwaukee Public Schools City officials made the request for help, called Epi-Aid, to the Centers ...