Conduct BLL testing for all refugee children coming in to US

[The Straight Story]

CDC Issues Recommendations for Lead Poisoning Prevention in Newly Arrived Refugee Children

blood lead levels (BLLs)
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"By being proactive in identifying at-risk refugee children, we can control or eliminate lead sources in the children’s environment whether they are products the families brought with them or lead paint, dust and soil hazards in homes in the US," said Mary Jean Brown, chief of the lead poisoning prevention branch at CDC.

The complete Recommendations for Lead Poisoning Prevention in Newly Arrived Refugee Children are available online at www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead. The following recommendations were developed for use by state and local health departments and state refugee health coordinators:

Identify Children with Elevated Blood Lead Levels

1. Conduct BLL testing for all refugee children ages six months to 16 years upon entering the US.
2. Repeat BLL testing for all refugee children ages six months to six years, three to six months after refugee children are placed in permanent residences. BLL testing should be repeated in older children if a child has a sibling with elevated BLL, regardless of his/her initial test results.

http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/pressrel/r050601.htm
Edited to add acronym definition

[SoCalDem]

1. Why not ALL children living in shithole housing?

There are rundown apartments and houses that have just had latex paint put over leadbased paint..and it eventually peels off.