Lehigh Valley kids have more lead in their blood than kids from recently embattled Flint, Michigan, and more than most other cities in the state, too.

Is this from the steel mills? Did Ed Pawlowski do this? I bet the casino made this happen. Maybe it was Musikfest!?!?!!?

…a 2014 Pennsylvania Department of Health annual report that included detailed information on 20 cities showed that 17 of those had a higher percentage of children with blood lead levels (BLLs) ≥ 5 μg/dL than the rest of the state. Cities like Allentown and Altoona had more than double the state exposure rate of 9.37 percent, and the group of 20 cities had a collective rate of 11.49 percent, also higher than the state rate. The geometric mean of blood lead level tests performed in Pennsylvania was 2.3 µg/dL, which is substantially lower than the state’s rate, indicating some cities in Pennsylvania are disproportionately impacted by lead exposure. SOURCE: VOX.com



Well, that’s… great.

Flint’s, by the way, is 3.21 percent.

So, what do we do with this new data? I have no idea. Get the lead out?

No idea how any of this goes about, but you would imagine that some of it has to be coming from the water, right?

Drink Fiji water, that stuff is great and it comes right from a volcano or something!