Mississippi Business Journal » lead http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:02:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Sixteen counties found to be high risk for lead poisoning http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/10/11/sixteen-counties-found-to-be-high-risk-for-lead-poisoning/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sixteen-counties-found-to-be-high-risk-for-lead-poisoning http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/10/11/sixteen-counties-found-to-be-high-risk-for-lead-poisoning/#comments Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:38:54 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=47077 ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — As part of Lead Poisoning Prevention Month, and the Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) reports from 2004-2009, approximately 197,917 children were screened for lead poisoning. Of these children 1,640 tested positive. The children lived in 77 counties, with 16 of these Mississippi counties identified as being high-risk areas for lead poisoning. [...]

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