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Children in Town With Toxic Water Tested for Lead

Hundreds of children in Flint Michigan are being tested for lead exposure,  local officials confirmed on Tuesday. Volunteers and local nurses manned stations where parents could bring their children to have their blood tested for lead exposure. Lead poisoning can cause brain damage in children, and is particularly dangerous to children under the age of 6. The move to test the children comes three weeks after a state of emergency was declared in the city due to contaminated...


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