Lead is especially pernicious, and pets are exposed to it through many sources, including consumer products, paint chips, linoleum, and
lead dust produced when surfaces in older homes are scraped or sanded.
Not exact matches
This epidemic affects mostly young children of color from low - income communities who live in poorly maintained housing, where windows, doors, walls and ceilings
produce invisible
lead dust that is ingested by infants and toddlers through hand - to - mouth behavior and inhalation.
Spores of Clostridium botulinum bacteria — found in dirt and
dust, which can contaminate honey — may
lead to infant botulism and
produce a toxin inside the body that can cause muscle weakness and breathing problems.
Coyote Winds tells of the times
leading up to the
Dust Bowl, a time of optimism and confidence, a time when a man was measured by what he
produced, not what he could buy.
The unexpected part to me was the effect of vegetation loss — as per my comment above, I saw that as significant mainly in
leading to the erosion which
produced the
dust clouds.