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If diagnosis and treatment are not widely available, how can this page assert that 1/3 of children have lead poisoning? Is it just an educated guess?
by bjt2n3904 5y ago
If diagnosis and treatment are not widely available, how can this page assert that 1/3 of children have lead poisoning?
Is it just an educated guess?
- tomhoward 5y agoThe figure comes from this paper [1]. I gather they do estimates based on sampling, but no doubt the testing rates and accuracy vary a lot from country to country, and the figure is presented for rhetorical impact over precision. [1] https://www.unicef.org/media/109361/file/The%20toxic%20truth.pdf https://www.unicef.org/media/109361/file/The%20toxic%20truth...