Amy Goodman
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Flint Doctor Mona Hanna-Attisha on How She Fought Gov't Denials to Expose Poisoning of City's Kids
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January 15, 2016
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6:40Now PlayingProtesters filled the Michigan state Capitol in Lansing on Thursday, calling on Governor Rick Snyder to resign over the contamination crisis his government has caused in the city of Flint’s water. Hours later, Snyder asked President Obama to declare a federal emergency in Flint. Flint residents are dealing not just with lead poisoning, but a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak that’s killed 10 people so far. The poisoning began in April 2014 after Darnell Earley, an unelected emergency manager appointed by Snyder, switched Flint’s water source to the longpolluted and corrosive Flint River in a bid to save money. We are joined by Dr. Mona HannaAttisha, the doctor who helped expose the lead poisoning. Dr. HannaAttisha headed a September study that found the proportion of children under five in Flint with elevated lead levels in their blood nearly doubled following the water switch. State officials initially dismissed those findings, but Dr. HannaAttisha refused to accept their denials. On Thursday, she was named the head of a new public health initiative to help those exposed to the contamination.
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