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• - Provides description of Oregon county community based services to those at risk for lead poisoning.
  
• - Information and analysis on hazards of residential lead exposure for children exposed to deteriorating lead-based paint, lead contaminated dust, and lead contaminated residential soil. EPA Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics.
  
• - Includes a lead screening quiz, discussion of risk factors, preventing exposure, and treatment options. Intended primarily for parents.
  
• - Organization aiming to eliminate childhood and foetal lead poisoning in Australia by the year 2012 and to protect the environment from lead. Includes fact sheets, news articles, and other resources.
  
• - An awareness organization striving to eradicate childhood lead poisoning through education, support, and assistance. Provide information about the hazards of lead poisoning.
  
• - Provides information to educate families, public and private health care providers, about lead and its hazards, treatment, and resources in Connecticut compiled by state and local communities.
  
• - Ohio State University Extension fact sheet on the subject.
  
• - Features articles and findings related to lead poisoning in children. Legal resources and medical information available.
  
• - About lead poisoning and U.S. government efforts to protect children from lead exposure. From the National Center for Environmental Health of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
  
• - Provides information concerning lead poisoning of the citizens of the City of Bremerton and Kitsap County in Washington State.
  
• - Provides a history of child lead poisoning in the U.S. and the role of the lead paint industry.
  
• - Adverse effects of lead in young children are showing at increasingly lower blood lead levels. Detection and management info from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control.
  
• - Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) info on lead and pesticide poisoning, indoor air quality, and other environmental health concerns of a non-infectious nature.
  
• - A children's environmental health program offering multi-layered solutions to this complex problem.
  
• - Information on lead contamination in Arica Chile.
  
• - U.S. National Library of Medicine information on lead poisoning with links to reviews and articles.
  
• - U.S. government program to give community-based organizations the tools and skills to plan and execute successful lead poisoning prevention programs in their communities.
  
• - Australian Lead Reference Centre for lead, health and the environment.
  
• - Millions more children and adolescents in the United States than previously thought endure the detrimental effects of exposure to lead, according to a new Children's Hospital Medical Center of Cincinnati study.
  
• - National AmeriCorps program helping families and communities protect their children from lead poisoning. Provides information about program, services, news, affiliates and membership.
  
• - Learn the lasting effects of plumbism to children exposed to dust from lead-containing paint.
  
• - San Francisco Children's Environmental Health Promotion (CEHP) childhood lead prevention program information.
  
• - ACSH update on lead and its effects on human health.