If a small percentage of children are getting tested, and maybe not the ones that are most at risk, then we can't tell a whole lot about the prevalence. There could be a big problem there and we're not detecting it.

In general in the state we're seeing the number of children being tested to be somewhat less than we would expect.

When you have a large percentage of pre-1978 property and you also have lots of children in poverty, then you're going to have a lot of children at risk for lead poisoning.

The site is a reflection of society. It's an enter-at-your-own-risk kind of thing.

That would be a highly risky and dangerous development that would put scores and indeed thousands of children at risk, not only from Cuba but from Mexico, Haiti, the Caribbean, the Pacific Rim, China, North Korea.

These are the children who are at greatest risk. Until now, they hadn't been taken into account because they lived so far from the city center. Those children never come (to the department), because they don't even have bus fare.