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Lead Poisoning: One Local Family's Struggle

This boy's story is one of many profiled in "Lead: Crisis Abandoned."

In a special Be Well series called “Lead: Crisis Abandoned” ideastream is featuring a series of reports about the problem of lead poisoning in Cuyahoga County and how federal funds to fix homes have run dry.  In this segment, health producer Kay Colby explains the medical consequences of lead poisoning to a child’s body and how lead poisoning impacts society, as a whole.

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