Doctors explain the long-term health effects of Flint water crisis [Video]

NEW YORK — The parents of children in Flint, Michigan have good reason to be worried about lead in the city’s water supply.

“There’s real danger that the injury is going to be permanent and lifelong in them,” Dr. Philip Landrigan, Dean of Global Health at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, tells CBS News.

“The problem here is, no level of lead is safe,” Landrigan says. “Even low levels of lead — especially if exposure to low levels continues over many months — is going to cause some degree of brain damage to at least some of the children who have been exposed — that’s a big deal.

Exposed children are at risk for a number of problems, including lower IQ …