{"id":15349,"date":"2015-12-16T11:08:36","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T16:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15349"},"modified":"2015-12-16T11:08:36","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T16:08:36","slug":"state-of-emergency-declared-in-michigan-city-after-lead-found-in-childrens-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15349","title":{"rendered":"State of Emergency Declared in Michigan City After Lead Found in Children\u2019s Blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"post-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theantimedia.org\/state-of-emergency-declared-in-michigan-city-after-lead-found-in-childrens-blood\/\" target=\"_blank\">State of Emergency Declared in Michigan City After Lead Found in Children\u2019s Blood<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><i>Flint, Michigan<\/i>&#8211; \u201c<i>The City of Flint has experienced a Manmade disaster<\/i>,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2015\/12\/15\/toxic-water-soaring-lead-levels-in-childrens-blood-create-state-of-emergency-in-flint-mich\/\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>\u00a0the city\u2019s\u00a0mayor Monday evening, as she\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DaveBondyTV\/status\/676583340573523968\" target=\"_blank\">declared<\/a>\u00a0a state of emergency over evidently staggering levels of lead in the city\u2019s tap water.\u00a0Mayor Karen M. Weaver has requested federal assistance to deal with the fallout from over a year\u2019s worth of tainted water delivered to Flint residents and, allegedly, falsely declared safe by government officials.<\/p>\n<p>In September, news\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2015\/09\/29\/444497051\/high-lead-levels-in-michigan-kids-after-city-switches-water-source\" target=\"_blank\">broke<\/a>\u00a0that lead contamination was on the rise in Flint. Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha of the Hurley Medical Center\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/flintwaterstudy.org\/2015\/09\/pediatric-lead-exposure-presentation-from-hurley-medical-center-doctors-concerning-flint-mi\/\" target=\"_blank\">concluded<\/a>\u00a0that since the water supply switched from the Detroit system to Flint River in April 2014, the number of infants and children with elevated levels of lead in their blood had\u00a0<i>doubled<\/i>, from 2.1% to 4%. While the rise seems small, it is statistically significant. Even so, Attisha\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2015\/09\/29\/444497051\/high-lead-levels-in-michigan-kids-after-city-switches-water-source\" target=\"_blank\">warned<\/a>: \u201c<i>My research shows that lead levels have gone up. I cannot say it\u2019s from the water. But that\u2019s, you know, the thing that has happened.<\/i>\u201c<\/p>\n<div class=\"insert-post-ads\">The World Health Organization\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/mediacentre\/factsheets\/fs379\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">says<\/a>\u201c<i>lead affects children\u2019s brain development resulting in reduced intelligence quotient (IQ), behavioral changes such as shortening of attention span and increased antisocial behavior, and reduced educational attainment. Lead exposure also causes anemia, hypertension, renal impairment, immunotoxicity and toxicity to the reproductive organs.\u00a0<\/i><b><i>The neurological and behavioral effects of lead are believed to be irreversible<\/i><\/b><i>.<\/i>\u201d<\/div>\n<p>The high levels of lead have been\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/news\/flint\/index.ssf\/2015\/09\/new_testing_shows_flint_water.html\" target=\"_blank\">attributed<\/a>\u00a0to old pipes and plumbing, which researchers say rubs off more into Flint River water than it does other sources. Because the water itself is more corrosive than other supplies, it erodes the pipes it flows through, picking up lead along the way.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State of Emergency Declared in Michigan City After Lead Found in Children\u2019s Blood Flint, Michigan&#8211; \u201cThe City of Flint has experienced a Manmade disaster,\u201d\u00a0said\u00a0the city\u2019s\u00a0mayor Monday evening, as she\u00a0declared\u00a0a state of emergency over evidently staggering levels of lead in the city\u2019s tap water.\u00a0Mayor Karen M. Weaver has requested federal assistance to deal with the fallout [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8803,2749,11077,11079,11080,11078,827,866,878,10233],"class_list":["post-15349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-antimedia","tag-drinking-water","tag-flint","tag-lead","tag-lead-poisoning","tag-michigan","tag-united-states","tag-water","tag-who","tag-world-health-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15350,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15349\/revisions\/15350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}