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Communicable diseases Epidemiology History Drinking water Lead content Health risk assessment Heavy metals Toxicity testing MEDICAL / Infectious Diseases Michigan Flint Public health Public health surveillance SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health IssuesClark, Anna (Anna Leigh)
Summary: "When the people of Flint, Michigan, turned on their faucets in April 2014, the water pouring out was poisoned with lead and other toxins. Through a series of disastrous decisions, the state government had switched the city's water supply to a source that corroded Flint's aging lead pipes. Complaints about the foul-smelling water were dismissed: the residents of Flint, mostly poor and African...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2018
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Summary: "From the author of The Fever, a wide-ranging inquiry into the origins of pandemics Interweaving history, original reportage, and personal narrative, Pandemic explores the origins of epidemics, drawing parallels between the story of cholera-one of history's most disruptive and deadly pathogens-and the new pathogens that stalk humankind today, from Ebola and avian influenza to drug-resistant...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016