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Ben Carson: “I saw children with pica, with lead poisoning chronically, what that did to them intellectually, what that did to them…”

On the recordJune 6, 2017
I saw children with pica, with lead poisoning chronically, what that did to them intellectually, what that did to them medically.
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Ben Carson

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Carson describes the impact of lead poisoning on children during a visit to East Baltimore.

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