Flint Water Crisis Is Cancerous To Residents Health

April 30. 2019

Flint, Michigan

The water crisis in the predominantly African-American U.S. city of Flint, Michigan, regarding heavy amounts of lead being present in the public’s water supply, will increase cancer rates in the region. Lead is a known source of cancer. Lead paint has been carefully removed from old homes for decades, due to its extreme toxicity. To have heavily infused levels of lead in Flint’s drinking, cooking and bathing water, to the point it is actually a deep brown shade resembling sewage, it very detrimental to the public’s health.

It will cause a host of health issues beyond the hair loss and rashes that have presented themselves thus far in residents of Flint. The human body is not a filtration system for lead. It cannot successfully metabolize, secrete or excrete lead. The human body will treat lead as a free radical and antigen. When the body interprets a foreign substance as an antigen, it will lead to cell damage and improper cell destruction. It will also lead to uncontrolled cell division, which is cancer.

The government has failed the people of Flint to have permitted this horrible problem to go on for years. All government employees who made the decision to switch the source of public water and those who carried out said orders, should face indictment and imprisonment.

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