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They’re packaged and shipped off to farmers markets around the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11668659\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11668659\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30976_IMG_2172-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30976_IMG_2172-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30976_IMG_2172-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30976_IMG_2172-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30976_IMG_2172-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30976_IMG_2172-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30976_IMG_2172-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30976_IMG_2172-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30976_IMG_2172-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30976_IMG_2172-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30976_IMG_2172-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Souleika Dirieh stands in front of the hummus shop she and her husband own in San Leandro. They believe their daughter got lead poisoning from an apartment they used to rent down the street. \u003ccite>(Angela Johnston)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The hummus factory is right down the street from the studio apartment this family used to live in. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s where their lead poisoning story began, a little over three years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Hidden Problem\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Tarek had just opened the business. He worked late nights, sleeping on the couch so he wouldn’t disturb his wife and daughter when he came home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One day I got sick,” he says. “For three days I was sick in the house. I couldn’t even move.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He just couldn’t shake the lingering cold. Souleika and Kawkeb got it too. Her parents say their little girl was sick for about six months with cold symptoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family only seemed to get better when they left the apartment, like when they went on vacation. Then, one day, Tarek realized he couldn’t find his wedding ring. They tore apart the house looking for it, pulling out the dresser and peering down the sink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We flipped the couch over and everything was green, green and black,” Tarek says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was mold everywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn’t believe it. I mean, I was in shock,” says Tarek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says rainwater that collected on the roof seeped into their walls and onto the floor. The mold was disgusting, but they were about to discover something worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They took Kawkeb to the hospital to see if the mold was making her sick. The doctors ran other tests, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s when we realized that she had lead [poisoning],” says Tarek. “Honestly, the only thing I could think of was that it came from the apartment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Serious Discovery\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/\">there is no safe level for lead\u003c/a>, but the threshold for intervention is when blood shows more than 5 micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood. Kawkeb’s blood registered a lead level of 23.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She stopped eating at first. She was always crying for no reason,” Souleika recalls. “Under her eyes were dark circles, and she wanted only my breast milk and not other food, and she would sleep a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That unusual behavior terrified Souleika.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I blamed myself,” she says. “I thought I didn’t take care of her and that she ate something that I did not pay attention to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cherifs came to the U.S. from Africa: Souleika from Djibouti and Tarek from Tunisia. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, most of the time I don’t hear American kids got lead,” says Souleika.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Response Network Kicks Into Gear\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The doctor immediately faxed Kawkeb’s high results to the county. Diep Tran, a county public health nurse, called the Cherifs, and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.achhd.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alameda County Healthy Homes\u003c/a> department came by to inspect the property for lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cherifs say by the time the county inspectors got there, the landlord had painted over the mold and the lead, so they couldn’t find any initial evidence. Painting over lead does contain it, temporarily solving the problem and making it undetectable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But county officials concluded that when Kawkeb got sick, the mold must have worn down the lead paint on the walls. Lead particles made their way into the air, and onto the floor where Kawkeb used to play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She would get affected more than us,” Tarek says. “We could breathe [it in], but because we are adults we could get rid of it faster than she does.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once they got Kawkeb into the county’s lead reduction program, the Cherifs moved out temporarily, staying with family while the landlord said he would finish the repairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as soon as they moved back in, Kawkeb’s lead levels didn’t go down like they should. The whole family started to get sick again. Tarek says he could tell the mold and lead weren’t really gone. He called the landlord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I took him inside the house and I showed them the same problem again,” Tarek says. “He wanted to move me to another apartment.” It was a neighboring unit in the building. Tarek wanted the county to come and inspect that unit, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I told him, ‘before I could move to another apartment, I’m going to bring in a whole team and test the place and then I’ll move. If it’s safe, I’ll move.’ And I think that’s what actually triggered everything. He evicted us right after that,” Tarek says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Legal Battle Begins\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Cherifs claim their landlord evicted them because they started to put up a fight. They’ve sued their former landlord for wrongful eviction and a host of other habitability claims. Basically, they allege their apartment wasn’t safe to live in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The same day he kicked us out he had another family move into the apartment,” claims Tarek. “He didn’t even clean it. He didn’t do a thing. Nothing. I mean we moved out at midnight, and a new family came in at 8 a.m., and they were already in the apartment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We spoke with the lawyer who represents both Cherifs’ former landlord and the property management company. He said he can’t comment because the case is ongoing, but that his clients “categorically deny any and all of the Cherifs’ claims,” and have not seen any evidence with merit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tarek Cherif says he’s worried someone else will get sick staying in his old apartment building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know my neighbors, they’re afraid because the rent is still kind of low. So, they don’t want to move out even though they know there are all these problems,” he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Lead-free, but not cheap\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Cherifs paid just under $900 per month for their old place. The fair market rent for a studio in Alameda County is just over \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/fmr/fmrs/FY2018_code/2018summary.odn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$1500\u003c/a> and many go for more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they searched for a new place in San Leandro near Tarek’s hummus shop, they couldn’t find anything. Eventually, they moved to Milpitas, a 40-minute drive away, into a house they shared with Tarek’s brother’s family, creating a joint household of seven people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their rent nearly quadrupled, but the house is safe. Tarek says he had it tested as soon as he moved in. More importantly, he says, Kawkeb’s acting like herself again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s developing normally, she’s grown normal. I mean she speaks, what, seven or eight languages,” Tarek says. “She counts, she knows numbers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her lead levels have gone down significantly, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s fine,” Souleika chimes in. “She’s eating well, she’s playing. She’s hundred percent healthy, and I’m happy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a family dealing with a lead-poisoned child, the Cherifs were actually lucky. They had a safety net, some savings and family they could move in with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happens to the families that don’t have anywhere else to move once they discover their child has lead poisoning?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diep Tran, the nurse who handles severe lead poisoning cases in Alameda County, says she strongly urges families to move if the lead problem is too difficult to fix or the property owners can’t be persuaded. State laws dictate landlords must maintain the property — including addressing lead hazards if there is a lead poisoned child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tran says landlords can claim that they want to sell the property instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What if they’re really not trying to sell the property and they just want the family to move so they don’t have to do the work?” asks Tran. “I cannot go back in three months and snoop around and see that that’s what the property owners meant when they said that they are selling. Sometimes they evict the family, and they change their mind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, the homeowners can rent to someone who can pay more, or sell the property altogether. She says sometimes this type of gentrification can result in lead cleanup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After a low-income family moves out, the property owners repaint and remodel the apartment or the house and can charge double or triple the price.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tran says when families have no other options, she actually may encourage them to go to a homeless shelter. That actually ups their chance of getting affordable and lead-safe housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other families, Tran says, move to Stockton, Antioch, Vallejo or Concord — suburbs on the edge of the Bay Area or Central Valley with cheaper, newer homes that don’t have lead paint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, some eight million homes were built before lead paint was banned in the 1970s. There are some 400,00 such homes in Alameda County alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11668663\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11668663\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30978_PHOTO_HEATMAP-qut-800x568.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30978_PHOTO_HEATMAP-qut-800x568.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30978_PHOTO_HEATMAP-qut-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30978_PHOTO_HEATMAP-qut-1020x725.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30978_PHOTO_HEATMAP-qut-1200x853.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30978_PHOTO_HEATMAP-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30978_PHOTO_HEATMAP-qut-1180x838.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30978_PHOTO_HEATMAP-qut-960x682.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30978_PHOTO_HEATMAP-qut-240x171.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30978_PHOTO_HEATMAP-qut-375x266.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30978_PHOTO_HEATMAP-qut-520x369.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda County’s public health department put together this lead poisoning heat map that accounts for several risk factors like race, poverty level, education, and age of homes. There is a higher risk of lead poisoning in the darker areas. \u003ccite>(Alameda County's Community Assessment Planning Evaluation (CAPE))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To follow up on her hunch, we called a handful of Bay Area fair-housing agencies. They told us they’re seeing an alarming trend: clusters of refugees and immigrants in unsafe housing. That practice of landlords taking advantage of people they know won’t be able to fight back is called \u003ca href=\"http://ced.berkeley.edu/downloads/gallery/incity/su13/incity_bayarea_voicesoftheregion_2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">predatory habitability\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s no surprise to Souleika Cherif. She says, older housing stock often ends up going to people who have fewer resources to deal with problems like lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is part of a \u003ca href=\"http://kalw.org/post/lead-and-bay-area-housing-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">longer story\u003c/a> in a KALW series \u003ca href=\"http://kalw.org/term/persistent-poison-leads-toxic-legacy-bay-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“Persistent Poison: Lead’s Toxic Legacy in the Bay Area.”\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We meet Souleika Dirieh and Tarek Cherif at \u003ca href=\"https://cuesa.org/seller/hummus-heaven\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the hummus factory\u003c/a> they own in San Leandro. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their three-year-old daughter Kawkeb loves playing outdoors. She runs between empty food crates, deep in a game of hide-and-go-seek with her mom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside the factory, the Cherifs and their employees make dozens of different types of hummus. Piles of ripped pita bread sizzle in the deep fryer before being sprinkled with spices. They’re packaged and shipped off to farmers markets around the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11668659\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11668659\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30976_IMG_2172-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30976_IMG_2172-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30976_IMG_2172-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30976_IMG_2172-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30976_IMG_2172-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30976_IMG_2172-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30976_IMG_2172-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30976_IMG_2172-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30976_IMG_2172-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30976_IMG_2172-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30976_IMG_2172-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Souleika Dirieh stands in front of the hummus shop she and her husband own in San Leandro. They believe their daughter got lead poisoning from an apartment they used to rent down the street. \u003ccite>(Angela Johnston)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The hummus factory is right down the street from the studio apartment this family used to live in. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s where their lead poisoning story began, a little over three years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Hidden Problem\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Tarek had just opened the business. He worked late nights, sleeping on the couch so he wouldn’t disturb his wife and daughter when he came home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One day I got sick,” he says. “For three days I was sick in the house. I couldn’t even move.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He just couldn’t shake the lingering cold. Souleika and Kawkeb got it too. Her parents say their little girl was sick for about six months with cold symptoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family only seemed to get better when they left the apartment, like when they went on vacation. Then, one day, Tarek realized he couldn’t find his wedding ring. They tore apart the house looking for it, pulling out the dresser and peering down the sink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We flipped the couch over and everything was green, green and black,” Tarek says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was mold everywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn’t believe it. I mean, I was in shock,” says Tarek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says rainwater that collected on the roof seeped into their walls and onto the floor. The mold was disgusting, but they were about to discover something worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They took Kawkeb to the hospital to see if the mold was making her sick. The doctors ran other tests, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s when we realized that she had lead [poisoning],” says Tarek. “Honestly, the only thing I could think of was that it came from the apartment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Serious Discovery\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/\">there is no safe level for lead\u003c/a>, but the threshold for intervention is when blood shows more than 5 micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood. Kawkeb’s blood registered a lead level of 23.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She stopped eating at first. She was always crying for no reason,” Souleika recalls. “Under her eyes were dark circles, and she wanted only my breast milk and not other food, and she would sleep a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That unusual behavior terrified Souleika.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I blamed myself,” she says. “I thought I didn’t take care of her and that she ate something that I did not pay attention to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cherifs came to the U.S. from Africa: Souleika from Djibouti and Tarek from Tunisia. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, most of the time I don’t hear American kids got lead,” says Souleika.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Response Network Kicks Into Gear\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The doctor immediately faxed Kawkeb’s high results to the county. Diep Tran, a county public health nurse, called the Cherifs, and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.achhd.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alameda County Healthy Homes\u003c/a> department came by to inspect the property for lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cherifs say by the time the county inspectors got there, the landlord had painted over the mold and the lead, so they couldn’t find any initial evidence. Painting over lead does contain it, temporarily solving the problem and making it undetectable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But county officials concluded that when Kawkeb got sick, the mold must have worn down the lead paint on the walls. Lead particles made their way into the air, and onto the floor where Kawkeb used to play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She would get affected more than us,” Tarek says. “We could breathe [it in], but because we are adults we could get rid of it faster than she does.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once they got Kawkeb into the county’s lead reduction program, the Cherifs moved out temporarily, staying with family while the landlord said he would finish the repairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as soon as they moved back in, Kawkeb’s lead levels didn’t go down like they should. The whole family started to get sick again. Tarek says he could tell the mold and lead weren’t really gone. He called the landlord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I took him inside the house and I showed them the same problem again,” Tarek says. “He wanted to move me to another apartment.” It was a neighboring unit in the building. Tarek wanted the county to come and inspect that unit, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I told him, ‘before I could move to another apartment, I’m going to bring in a whole team and test the place and then I’ll move. If it’s safe, I’ll move.’ And I think that’s what actually triggered everything. He evicted us right after that,” Tarek says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Legal Battle Begins\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Cherifs claim their landlord evicted them because they started to put up a fight. They’ve sued their former landlord for wrongful eviction and a host of other habitability claims. Basically, they allege their apartment wasn’t safe to live in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The same day he kicked us out he had another family move into the apartment,” claims Tarek. “He didn’t even clean it. He didn’t do a thing. Nothing. I mean we moved out at midnight, and a new family came in at 8 a.m., and they were already in the apartment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We spoke with the lawyer who represents both Cherifs’ former landlord and the property management company. He said he can’t comment because the case is ongoing, but that his clients “categorically deny any and all of the Cherifs’ claims,” and have not seen any evidence with merit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tarek Cherif says he’s worried someone else will get sick staying in his old apartment building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know my neighbors, they’re afraid because the rent is still kind of low. So, they don’t want to move out even though they know there are all these problems,” he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Lead-free, but not cheap\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Cherifs paid just under $900 per month for their old place. The fair market rent for a studio in Alameda County is just over \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/fmr/fmrs/FY2018_code/2018summary.odn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$1500\u003c/a> and many go for more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they searched for a new place in San Leandro near Tarek’s hummus shop, they couldn’t find anything. Eventually, they moved to Milpitas, a 40-minute drive away, into a house they shared with Tarek’s brother’s family, creating a joint household of seven people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their rent nearly quadrupled, but the house is safe. Tarek says he had it tested as soon as he moved in. More importantly, he says, Kawkeb’s acting like herself again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s developing normally, she’s grown normal. I mean she speaks, what, seven or eight languages,” Tarek says. “She counts, she knows numbers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her lead levels have gone down significantly, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s fine,” Souleika chimes in. “She’s eating well, she’s playing. She’s hundred percent healthy, and I’m happy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a family dealing with a lead-poisoned child, the Cherifs were actually lucky. They had a safety net, some savings and family they could move in with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happens to the families that don’t have anywhere else to move once they discover their child has lead poisoning?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diep Tran, the nurse who handles severe lead poisoning cases in Alameda County, says she strongly urges families to move if the lead problem is too difficult to fix or the property owners can’t be persuaded. State laws dictate landlords must maintain the property — including addressing lead hazards if there is a lead poisoned child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tran says landlords can claim that they want to sell the property instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What if they’re really not trying to sell the property and they just want the family to move so they don’t have to do the work?” asks Tran. “I cannot go back in three months and snoop around and see that that’s what the property owners meant when they said that they are selling. Sometimes they evict the family, and they change their mind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, the homeowners can rent to someone who can pay more, or sell the property altogether. She says sometimes this type of gentrification can result in lead cleanup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After a low-income family moves out, the property owners repaint and remodel the apartment or the house and can charge double or triple the price.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tran says when families have no other options, she actually may encourage them to go to a homeless shelter. That actually ups their chance of getting affordable and lead-safe housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other families, Tran says, move to Stockton, Antioch, Vallejo or Concord — suburbs on the edge of the Bay Area or Central Valley with cheaper, newer homes that don’t have lead paint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, some eight million homes were built before lead paint was banned in the 1970s. 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There is a higher risk of lead poisoning in the darker areas. \u003ccite>(Alameda County's Community Assessment Planning Evaluation (CAPE))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To follow up on her hunch, we called a handful of Bay Area fair-housing agencies. They told us they’re seeing an alarming trend: clusters of refugees and immigrants in unsafe housing. That practice of landlords taking advantage of people they know won’t be able to fight back is called \u003ca href=\"http://ced.berkeley.edu/downloads/gallery/incity/su13/incity_bayarea_voicesoftheregion_2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">predatory habitability\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s no surprise to Souleika Cherif. She says, older housing stock often ends up going to people who have fewer resources to deal with problems like lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The U.S. House of Representatives voted down the so-called farm bill Friday on a \u003ca href=\"http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2018/roll205.xml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">213-198 vote\u003c/a>. The bill’s failure proved a high-stakes embarrassment to GOP leadership, which spent days attempting to wrangle enough votes for the massive piece of legislation setting agriculture and food policy, with a price tag of $857 billion over 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As expected, all Democrats voted against the measure. They were also joined by 30 Republicans, many of them members of the House Freedom Caucus, who voted “no” after failing to get concessions on spending and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/17/politics/conservative-bill-immigration-daca-negotiations/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">future vote on immigration\u003c/a> in exchange for their support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the big picture, the farm bill would have continued subsidies for farmers. But a key sticking point in the measure, particularly for Democrats, was proposed changes to food stamps — officially known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP — which helps \u003ca href=\"https://www.fns.usda.gov/pd/supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program-snap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">42 million Americans, \u003c/a>including one in 10 Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi characterized the bill as “cruel” and “destructive,” and summed up her party’s stiff opposition just two hours before the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NancyPelosi/status/997488952369143808\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018 \u003c/a>proposed to shift billions of dollars to employment and training programs, while substantially increasing the number of people who would need to prove they are working or enrolled in job training to get the monthly nutrition benefits, which average $126 per person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While opponents argued the changes would lead to more low-income Americans going hungry, supporters said they would help move people out of poverty and strengthen the country’s workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Food stamps should be for the neediest in our community,” said \u003ca href=\"https://denham.house.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rep. Jeff Denham\u003c/a> (R-Turlock), a member of the \u003ca href=\"https://agriculture.house.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">House Committee on Agriculture\u003c/a>, who voted for the farm bill in committee last month. “If you’re able-bodied and you are work-capable, we want to make sure you find a job and you get the training that you need to lift yourself out of poverty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationwide, adults ages 18 to 49 who don’t have dependents or disabilities must prove they are working or in job training at least 20 hours per week to receive SNAP benefits for more than three months. The bill would have substantially expanded the requirement to include adults up to age 59 and parents with children older than age 5. Recipients would have had to show they were meeting the new rules on a monthly basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Denham represents a portion of the Central Valley, a region where SNAP, called\u003ca href=\"http://www.cdss.ca.gov/food-nutrition/calfresh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> CalFresh\u003c/a> in California, helps reduce more poverty than elsewhere in the state, according to an \u003ca href=\"http://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/calfresh-cuts-poverty-congressional-districts/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">analysis\u003c/a> by the California Budget & Policy Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Denham acknowledged the potential difficulty for low-income Californians who are already struggling to get by. But he said his own family was able to get off the food aid when he was growing up to achieve greater financial stability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, when my parents were on food stamps it was a challenging situation where my mom needed to go back out and get new training to be able to get a new job,” Denham said. “It’s very difficult, I get it. But I also understand that you are able to improve your life by working and actually having a job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spending on SNAP and other nutrition programs makes up the largest portion of the farm bill’s cost, about 76 percent. Last year, the federal government spent $68 billion on the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the failed bill, about 1.2 million people would have stopped receiving SNAP benefits as a result of the tighter work requirements in 2028, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbpp.org/blog/6-takeaways-from-cbo-estimate-of-house-agriculture-committee-snap-proposals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according\u003c/a> to the nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. The majority of them would have been parents with older kids — although children receiving the benefit would not be affected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For food banks, that spelled bad news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any cuts to SNAP guarantee that we will see an increase of individuals, families in our food pantry lines. And we are not prepared to meet that need,” said Natalie Caples, chief operations officer at\u003ca href=\"http://www.communityfoodbank.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Community Food Bank\u003c/a>, which serves Fresno and four other counties in the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caples said that for every 12 meals that SNAP provides, food banks in the\u003ca href=\"http://www.feedingamerica.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Feeding America\u003c/a> network make up just one meal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no way,” she said. “We don’t have the resources to make up those additional meals that SNAP currently provides in our service area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11668977\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11668977\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People wait their turn to get bags of fresh vegetables, bread and other staples at a food pantry volunteers set up by a park in Mendota, California, on May 10, 2018. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At a food pantry that volunteers set up in a parking lot in\u003ca href=\"http://ci.mendota.ca.us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Mendota\u003c/a>, a small city surrounded by agricultural fields, Maria Escobar awaited her turn to reach for a Community Food Bank cardboard box with cabbage and broccoli, bread, a chicken and other staples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Escobar, 30, said she sometimes supplements her household’s CalFresh benefits with additional food from the pantry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With my kids, it’s really difficult, because food is so expensive,” Escobar said. She has three kids at home, ages 8, 10 and 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Escobar is a farmworker, but the jobs are seasonal. As a single parent, she said it would have been difficult to meet the proposed requirements to avoid a drop in benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know what I would do,” Escobar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnocitycollege.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fresno City College\u003c/a> student Frederick Johnson, the $190 he receives monthly in CalFresh benefits is one of the few things he can currently count on in life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson, 22, has struggled with homelessness. But he still goes to school full time and works a minimum-wage job at the college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t come from the best family. I come from a bad neighborhood as well. So I know I got to work twice as hard to be on everybody else’s level,” said Johnson, a biochemistry major who dreams of working in a lab as a medical researcher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11668975\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11668975\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30997_IMG_1727-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30997_IMG_1727-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30997_IMG_1727-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30997_IMG_1727-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30997_IMG_1727-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30997_IMG_1727-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30997_IMG_1727-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30997_IMG_1727-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30997_IMG_1727-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30997_IMG_1727-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30997_IMG_1727-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frederick Johnson, 22, takes a break from his studies by the library at Fresno City College. Johnson wants to become a medical researcher, and says his SNAP benefits help him stay in school. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Currently, California has a waiver that exempts SNAP recipients like Johnson from having to prove they are working 20 hours per week. But that waiver expires this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having to find more work hours, to keep more than one month of CalFresh benefits at a time, would have made it harder for him to stay in school, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t feel like they should add pressure to people on CalFresh,” Johnson said of lawmakers backing the farm bill. “I feel like they should sincerely just help them and give them more time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR’s Brian Naylor and Kelsey Snell contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018 \u003c/a>proposed to shift billions of dollars to employment and training programs, while substantially increasing the number of people who would need to prove they are working or enrolled in job training to get the monthly nutrition benefits, which average $126 per person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While opponents argued the changes would lead to more low-income Americans going hungry, supporters said they would help move people out of poverty and strengthen the country’s workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Food stamps should be for the neediest in our community,” said \u003ca href=\"https://denham.house.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rep. Jeff Denham\u003c/a> (R-Turlock), a member of the \u003ca href=\"https://agriculture.house.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">House Committee on Agriculture\u003c/a>, who voted for the farm bill in committee last month. “If you’re able-bodied and you are work-capable, we want to make sure you find a job and you get the training that you need to lift yourself out of poverty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationwide, adults ages 18 to 49 who don’t have dependents or disabilities must prove they are working or in job training at least 20 hours per week to receive SNAP benefits for more than three months. The bill would have substantially expanded the requirement to include adults up to age 59 and parents with children older than age 5. Recipients would have had to show they were meeting the new rules on a monthly basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Denham represents a portion of the Central Valley, a region where SNAP, called\u003ca href=\"http://www.cdss.ca.gov/food-nutrition/calfresh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> CalFresh\u003c/a> in California, helps reduce more poverty than elsewhere in the state, according to an \u003ca href=\"http://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/calfresh-cuts-poverty-congressional-districts/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">analysis\u003c/a> by the California Budget & Policy Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Denham acknowledged the potential difficulty for low-income Californians who are already struggling to get by. But he said his own family was able to get off the food aid when he was growing up to achieve greater financial stability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, when my parents were on food stamps it was a challenging situation where my mom needed to go back out and get new training to be able to get a new job,” Denham said. “It’s very difficult, I get it. But I also understand that you are able to improve your life by working and actually having a job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spending on SNAP and other nutrition programs makes up the largest portion of the farm bill’s cost, about 76 percent. Last year, the federal government spent $68 billion on the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the failed bill, about 1.2 million people would have stopped receiving SNAP benefits as a result of the tighter work requirements in 2028, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbpp.org/blog/6-takeaways-from-cbo-estimate-of-house-agriculture-committee-snap-proposals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according\u003c/a> to the nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. The majority of them would have been parents with older kids — although children receiving the benefit would not be affected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For food banks, that spelled bad news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any cuts to SNAP guarantee that we will see an increase of individuals, families in our food pantry lines. And we are not prepared to meet that need,” said Natalie Caples, chief operations officer at\u003ca href=\"http://www.communityfoodbank.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Community Food Bank\u003c/a>, which serves Fresno and four other counties in the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caples said that for every 12 meals that SNAP provides, food banks in the\u003ca href=\"http://www.feedingamerica.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Feeding America\u003c/a> network make up just one meal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no way,” she said. “We don’t have the resources to make up those additional meals that SNAP currently provides in our service area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11668977\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11668977\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30999_IMG_1665-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People wait their turn to get bags of fresh vegetables, bread and other staples at a food pantry volunteers set up by a park in Mendota, California, on May 10, 2018. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At a food pantry that volunteers set up in a parking lot in\u003ca href=\"http://ci.mendota.ca.us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Mendota\u003c/a>, a small city surrounded by agricultural fields, Maria Escobar awaited her turn to reach for a Community Food Bank cardboard box with cabbage and broccoli, bread, a chicken and other staples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Escobar, 30, said she sometimes supplements her household’s CalFresh benefits with additional food from the pantry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With my kids, it’s really difficult, because food is so expensive,” Escobar said. She has three kids at home, ages 8, 10 and 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Escobar is a farmworker, but the jobs are seasonal. As a single parent, she said it would have been difficult to meet the proposed requirements to avoid a drop in benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know what I would do,” Escobar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnocitycollege.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fresno City College\u003c/a> student Frederick Johnson, the $190 he receives monthly in CalFresh benefits is one of the few things he can currently count on in life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson, 22, has struggled with homelessness. But he still goes to school full time and works a minimum-wage job at the college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t come from the best family. I come from a bad neighborhood as well. 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Johnson wants to become a medical researcher, and says his SNAP benefits help him stay in school. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Currently, California has a waiver that exempts SNAP recipients like Johnson from having to prove they are working 20 hours per week. But that waiver expires this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having to find more work hours, to keep more than one month of CalFresh benefits at a time, would have made it harder for him to stay in school, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t feel like they should add pressure to people on CalFresh,” Johnson said of lawmakers backing the farm bill. “I feel like they should sincerely just help them and give them more time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Diagnoses of sexually transmitted diseases hit a record high in California last year — with sometimes deadly consequences, according to preliminary \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/STDs-CA-2017Snapshot.pdf\">state data\u003c/a> released this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 300,000 cases of gonorrhea, chlamydia and syphilis — the most common sexually transmitted bacterial infections — were reported in 2017. That represents a 45 percent increase since 2013 and the highest number since at least 1990, state Department of Public Health numbers show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of those cases had tragic endings: Thirty of the 278 babies affected by congenital syphilis in 2017 were stillbirths, the highest number in 22 years. \u003ca href=\"https://californiahealthline.org/news/syphilis-among-california-newborns-spikes-amid-broader-std-epidemic/\">Congenital syphilis\u003c/a> occurs when syphilis passes from a pregnant woman to her fetus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has the second-highest rate of congenital syphilis in the country after Louisiana, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/std/stats16/tables/41.htm\">most recent national data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re getting a lot of … younger pregnant women infected with syphilis and not getting prenatal care,” said Mario Alfaro, regional program director for education at Planned Parenthood Mar Monte in Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno County accounted for 60 of the state’s congenital syphilis cases last year, including seven stillbirths, said Joe Prado, a division manager at the county Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno County participates in a pilot program run by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the state public health department to address congenital syphilis. Officials say the program has already increased outreach and screening but that the number of diagnoses is still rising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newborns with congenital syphilis may suffer from deformed bones, severe anemia, blindness, deafness or other symptoms. According to the CDC, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/std/syphilis/stdfact-congenital-syphilis.htm\">up to 40 percent of babies born\u003c/a> to women with untreated syphilis may be stillborn or die from the infection as a newborn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alfaro cited lack of access to health care, insurance and education as contributing factors to the rise in congenital syphilis. “All of those things are a deadly combination,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prado also pointed to a rise in syphilis among methamphetamine users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re just seeing this is a more difficult population to get a hold of, to reach and really be able to get them to consent and agree to treatment,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chlamydia has increased 9 percent in California since 2016. Chlamydia is more prevalent in women, while gonorrhea, which has increased 16 percent since 2016, is more common in men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Half of chlamydia and a third of gonorrhea cases are folks under age 25,” said Dr. Heidi Bauer, the state public health department’s chief of the Sexually Transmitted Diseases Control Branch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her division released this preliminary data this week, a few months before the final numbers become available, because the increases are so dramatic, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rates of both chlamydia and gonorrhea are nearly five times higher among blacks than whites. And men who have sex with men also have much higher rates of infection than the general population. Their rates of syphilis are more than 20 times the overall rate, and their rates of gonorrhea are more than 15 times the overall rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s data did not include HIV, a viral STD. New HIV infections fell in both California and nationwide from 2012 to 2016, in part because of \u003ca href=\"https://www.hiv.gov/blog/new-hiv-infections-drop-18-percent-in-six-years\">improved treatment\u003c/a> and increased use of the \u003ca href=\"https://californiahealthline.org/news/use-of-hiv-prevention-drug-grows-but-lags-among-non-whites/\">HIV-prevention pill known as PrEP\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there’s \u003ca href=\"https://californiahealthline.org/news/gonorrhea-rate-has-shot-up-in-california/\">no one clear reason for the increases\u003c/a> of the other STDs, Bauer pointed to “very high rates of folks who are not accessing sexual health services and aren’t getting screened frequently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If left untreated, chlamydia and gonorrhea can lead to infertility, ectopic pregnancy and chronic pelvic pain. Syphilis can cause permanent vision and hearing loss, and other neurological problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once diagnosed, doctors can often cure these sexually transmitted diseases with antibiotics, said Dr. Karen Smith, the state’s public health director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because these infections often appear without symptoms, San Francisco County wants to make sure the hardest-hit populations have access to regular screenings, said Dr. Susan Philip, a division director at the county Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Making sure that there are culturally appropriate and sensitive services … where young people would be willing to seek care becomes really important,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>This story was produced by \u003ca href=\"https://khn.org/\">Kaiser Health News\u003c/a>, which publishes \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiahealthline.org/\">California Healthline\u003c/a>, a service of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.chcf.org/\">California Health Care Foundation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/\">Kaiser Health News\u003c/a> (KHN) is a national health policy news service. It is an editorially independent program of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.kff.org/\">Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation\u003c/a> which is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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He did not address the legal issue of whether it was proper to allow people to take their own lives, and gave the state attorney general five days to appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We strongly disagree with this ruling and the state is seeking expedited review in the Court of Appeal,” Attorney General Xavier Becerra said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://lifelegaldefensefoundation.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Life Legal Defense Foundation\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://ethicalhealthcare.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Academy of Medical Ethics\u003c/a> and several physicians challenged the law, which allows adults to obtain a prescription for life-ending drugs if a doctor has determined they have six months or less to live. The plaintiffs say the law lacks safeguards to protect against abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California health officials reported that 111 terminally ill people took drugs to end their lives in the first six months after the law went into effect on June 9, 2016, and made the option legal in the nation’s most populous state. Oregon was the first to provide the option in 1997. There are also laws on the books in Washington state, Vermont, Colorado, Hawaii, Montana and Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.compassionandchoices.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Compassion & Choices\u003c/a>, a national organization that advocated for the law, estimated that in its first year 504 Californians requested prescriptions for medical aid in dying, but had no further update Tuesday. The next report on how many people took the drugs is due in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our supporters, they’ve frankly expressed shock at this outcome. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen Shanae Fuller gave birth to her son, Jerry, she hardly got to see him. She didn’t get to hold him, or listen to him cry. He was whisked away to a different hospital across town for emergency surgery. Even after the surgery, it was hard to make out the shape and feel of her baby. Jerry was wrapped in bandages and tubes and wires. His whimpers were muffled by the persistent beeps of nearby monitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seeing her son in the neonatal intensive care unit, Fuller was overcome with a wave of anger. Anger at fate for bringing her and Jerry here. But really anger at the doctors and nurses. She was mad at her mom and her boyfriend. 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And she was disappointed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was afraid of what people were going to say,” she said. “I was disappointed within myself, and my well-being, and where I was in life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her boyfriend tried to stay upbeat. Together, they went to their first ultrasound appointment, where they’d find out the sex of the baby. Her boyfriend cheered when they heard, “It’s a boy.” Fuller asked, “Wait. Are you sure?” Nervous excitement filled the air. And then the tone changed. There was mostly silence, as the nurse pointed out something that required the doctor’s attention. Fuller’s baby boy had spina bifida. Ten minutes later, they faced a counselor who gave them an explanation of the condition. But the conversation didn’t do much beyond fill Fuller’s head with jargon and questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11667908\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11667908\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30912_Shanae-Jerry-Ultrasound-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1078\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30912_Shanae-Jerry-Ultrasound-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30912_Shanae-Jerry-Ultrasound-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30912_Shanae-Jerry-Ultrasound-qut-800x449.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30912_Shanae-Jerry-Ultrasound-qut-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30912_Shanae-Jerry-Ultrasound-qut-1200x674.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30912_Shanae-Jerry-Ultrasound-qut-1180x663.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30912_Shanae-Jerry-Ultrasound-qut-960x539.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30912_Shanae-Jerry-Ultrasound-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30912_Shanae-Jerry-Ultrasound-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30912_Shanae-Jerry-Ultrasound-qut-520x292.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shanae Fuller’s first ultrasound revealed her baby boy had spina bifida. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Shanae Fuller)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Spina bifida translates from Latin to “split spine.” It’s a rare birth defect in which the neural tube, which houses the spinal cord, doesn’t close all the way. A bulge can form, made up of fluid, nerves and the spinal cord. Physical and even developmental disabilities can follow. It’s a defect that’s even rarer for Fuller: African-Americans are less likely to have spina bifida than whites or Latinos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fuller isn’t sure if she might have learned something during those first weeks of her pregnancy that could have changed its outcome. She never took folic acid, for example. When women take folic acid in the first trimester, it reduces the risk of neural tube defects by 70 percent. Fuller had never heard how important it was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only thing that truly resonated from that first meeting with the counselor was that the medical professionals taking care of Fuller didn’t think her son would survive. They gave her a few options, including terminating the pregnancy. 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