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Dundalk Toddler Tests Positive For Lead Poisoning

A toddler tested positive after his family moved into a newly renovated home in Baltimore County.

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After Landon Graham was found to have dangerously high lead levels in his system, the Department of Housing, Department of the Environment and Public Housing Department took over the bill for the $178,000 in repairs and relocation.
After Landon Graham was found to have dangerously high lead levels in his system, the Department of Housing, Department of the Environment and Public Housing Department took over the bill for the $178,000 in repairs and relocation. (WJZ)

DUNDALK, MD — In 2020, 1,171 Maryland children tested positive for having too much lead in their blood. Landon Graham was one of them.

“I was contacted by his doctor’s office saying his lead levels were 16,” his mother, Magain Fitzgerald, told WJZ. According to the CDC, a dangerous level of lead for a child is anything about five micrograms per deciliter. Landon’s was more than triple that.

His dad knew something was up. “At one point he was starting to be angry biting and acting weird,” said Lance Graham.

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