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Children under the age of six in Flint, Michigan, were significantly more likely to have elevated levels of lead in their blood following the city’s 2014 switch in water providers, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a report. The findings—pulled from an analysis of more than 9,000 blood lead tests conducted over three years—help quantify the scale of a public health crisis in the Michigan city.

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