According to the Mayo Clinic, “Children younger than 6 years are especially vulnerable to lead poisoning, which can severely affect mental and physical development. At very high levels ...

Here’s what public health experts suggest residents can do to protect themselves from potential fire-related contaminants ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has denied a request from Milwaukee’s public health department for assistance in managing unsafe lead levels ... CDC’s lead poisoning ...

Soil samples taken in and around the Eaton Fire burn area show elevated levels of lead downwind, public health officials announced Friday, prompting calls for concerned residents whose properties ...

more than half had lead levels on them higher than at least the EPA limit. "For children, there is no safe level of lead," said Francois Tissot, Caltech professor of geochemistry. The equipment ...

"A very small number" of the children who attended a lead testing clinic Saturday had elevated levels of the toxic metal in their blood, according to a Wednesday letter from the city Health ...

The biggest takeaway was elevated percentages of lead levels in soil samples taken from sites downwind from the Eaton fire area that are a notch above public health thresholds. Such results on ...