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MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) - They come here to escape war, starvation and desperate lives in such places as Liberia and Somalia. They bring their children, believing they will thrive in the United States.
Instead, these youngsters, having survived crowded refugee camps and treacherous travel, now are being poisoned in their new American homes.
The culprit is lead. It killed 2-year-old Sunday Abek, whose family escaped from Sudan. And it has sickened at least 40 other African refugee children in the last 18 months, including Benita Nahimana, a 3-year-old who landed in the hospital soon after arriving from a camp in Tanzania last summer.
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