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Known to be toxic for a century, lead still poisons thousands of Midwestern kids

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Lisa Pascoe's son was one of almost 4,700 Missouri children with dangerous levels of lead in their blood in the state's 2012 report — decades after the U.S. started phasing lead out of gasoline and banned it in new residential paint and water pipes.

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