Similar Stories to Flint Water Crisis Deaths Lead To Manslaughter Trial For Michigan's Health Chief on Bing News

Michigan's top health official will go to trial for manslaughter charges in the wake of the Flint water crisis. Arguments concluded in July over whether Nick Lyon, the state director of health and human services, would face a manslaughter trial in connection to the crisis, The Associated Press reports. Michigan's attorney general claimed Lyon didn't alert citizens to the outbreak soon enough, and on Monday a judge agreed to send Lyon to trial. Two men died from Legionnaire's disease after the water supply in Flint, Michigan, was contaminated following the city's decision to switch water sources.

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