Lead Poisoning

West Virginia American Water Wants To Know If Your Homes Pipes Have Lead

The company is asking customers to check their home’s water piping system for lead. Their website has information that customers can use to identify lead, which is a neurotoxin. Then customers are asked to log that information into an interactive map.

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Childhood Lead Poisoning Rates Dropping in West Virginia

The most common way children are exposed to lead these days is from the lead-based paint almost universally found in homes built before 1980. (Lead-based…

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WVU Researchers Ask: Are Lead Poisoned Vultures the New Canary in a Coal Mine?

A new study out of West Virginia University finds that lead poisoning in vultures is way more prevalent than expected. Researchers say the source of the…

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