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Flint water and fetus deaths

2017-09-22 02:13:54.191688+00 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Flint’s lead-poisoned water had a ‘horrifyingly large’ effect on fetal deaths, study finds:

That decline was primarily driven by what the authors call a “culling of the least healthy fetuses” resulting in a “horrifyingly large” increase in fetal deaths and miscarriages. The paper estimates that among the babies conceived from November 2013 through March 2015, “between 198 and 276 more children would have been born had Flint not enacted the switch in water,” write health economists Daniel Grossman of West Virginia University and David Slusky of Kansas University.

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