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The paper discusses how lead poisoning is observed in children all over the world and is linked with paint, contaminated soil, consumer products, water supplies, and contaminated foods, among other sources of toxicity. The paper relates that the impacts of lead toxicity on the child's developing brain consist of neuro-cognitive and neuro-behavioral impairments (Karr, 2008) and children from the Third World are at much greater risk of lead poisoning than other children. The paper discusses how Tehranifar and Leighton (2008) found that the children who exhibit the highest levels of lead toxicity in North America are immigrant, refugee, and internationally adopted children, and, lead poisoning in Third World children is usually not evident without other problems being present.

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"Lead poisoning is observed in children all over the world and is linked with paint, contaminated soil, consumer products, water supplies, and contaminated foods, among other sources of toxicity. The impacts of lead toxicity on the child's developing brain consist of neuro-cognitive and neuro-behavioral impairments (Karr, 2008). Children from the Third World are at much greater risk of lead poisoning than other children. Tehranifar and Leighton (2008) found that the children who exhibit the highest levels of lead toxicity in North America are immigrant, refugee, and..."

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