Hacker News with Generative AI: Lead Poisoning

CDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffs (cbsnews.com)
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 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. eliminated the agency's response team.
Roman Empire's use of lead lowered IQ levels across Europe, study finds (theguardian.com)
Apart from sanitation, medicines, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what did the Romans ever do for us? asks an exasperated Reg in Monty Python’s Life of Brian.
Half of US adults exposed to harmful lead levels as kids (2022) (apnews.com)
Over 170 million U.S.-born people who were adults in 2015 were exposed to harmful levels of lead as children, a new study estimates.
Sparrows may be 'canary in the coal mine' for lead poisoning in children: study (abc.net.au)
One in four US households likely exceed new soil lead guidance levels (wiley.com)