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Quotes regarding: CDC's New Guidance on Lead Screening |
November 3, 1997 Contact: CDC Press Office 404-639-3286 |
"CDC's new guidance should result in an increase in screening of children who are at risk for lead exposure, while decreasing unnecessary screening of children who are not exposed to lead." Ruth A. Etzel, M.D., Ph.D. |
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"Lead is a local problem and it requires local solutions. This new guidance provides communities with a clear road map for focusing their public health efforts where they are most needed." Susan K. Cummins, MD, MPH |
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"The new recommendations for targeted lead screening restore secondary prevention efforts to their proper role in detecting lead poisoning among at-risk children and as a guidance for primary prevention efforts. They will ask of public health officers and providers a rigorous and more scientific approach to the problem of childhood lead poisoning prevention. These recommendations are a progressive and scientific approach fully in keeping with the long CDC tradition of careful and reasoned approaches to solving public health problems. The CDC should be strongly supported by all with a commitment to solving the problem of childhood lead poisoning." J. Routt Reigart, M.D., FAAP |
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"This is the beginning of a campaign thats going to improve community efforts to identify children with lead poisoning." Peter Simon, MD, MPH |
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