{"id":18244,"date":"2025-10-22T18:53:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T18:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/18244\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T18:53:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T18:53:15","slug":"childhood-lead-poisoning-prevention-month-highlights-awareness-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/18244\/","title":{"rendered":"Childhood lead poisoning prevention month highlights awareness efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 October marks Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Month, a period dedicated to raising awareness about the dangers of lead exposure and its potential impact on children&#8217;s health and development. Experts emphasize that even small amounts of lead can cause lasting damage. However, they also note that lead poisoning is entirely preventable. Cassandra Mulder, a supervising public health nurse, is among those spreading the message about prevention and awareness during this critical month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 October marks Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Month, a period dedicated to raising awareness about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[13849,151,153,152,1729,1335,15450,1570,15448,15449,4720],"class_list":["post-18244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-awareness","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-childhood","tag-development","tag-exposure","tag-health","tag-lead-poisoning","tag-prevention","tag-public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}