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CDC lowers estimate of children with blood-lead poisoning. (Research).

Asbestos & Lead Abatement Report,  January, 2003  

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Blood-lead poisoning prevention methods seem to be working, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have found the number of children 1 to 5 years old at risk of brain damage and learning disabilities has dropped from about 890,000 to 300,000, a decline of two-thirds.

The first number was derived from a 1991 to ...