Baby crisis in Flint: Live birth rate plummeted 60% and fertility rate dipped 12% during lead-infected water crisis, new figures suggest

There were 12 percent fewer pregnancies and 58 percent more fetal deaths in Flint than in the rest of Michigan while Flint women were drinking lead-contaminated water, a preliminary study finds.

The new research from the University of Kansas (KU) and the University of West Virginia (WVU) suggests there may have been even more miscarriages in Flint than are documented.
More than 2,000 babies born in Flint in 2014 and 2015 were exposed to lead.


Dr Grossman and Slusky calculated the general fertility rates (GFR) of Flint and other major Michigan cities, and found a dramatic drop off in Flint, corresponding with the city's use of lead-contaminated water

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