Toxic Fallujah
Fallujah, an Iraqi city forever marked by the U.S. assault there, is dealing with another claim to infamy -- infant deformities running up to 15 times higher than normal and a spike in cases of early-life cancers that may be linked to toxic materials from the fighting.
Fallujah, an Iraqi city forever marked by the U.S. assault there, is dealing with another claim to infamy — infant deformities running up to 15 times higher than normal and a spike in cases of early-life cancers that may be linked to toxic materials from the fighting. — JCL
AS CHAOS UNFOLDS, FIND SOLID GROUND…The Guardian:
Doctors in Iraq’s war-ravaged enclave of Falluja are dealing with up to 15 times as many chronic deformities in infants and a spike in early life cancers that may be linked to toxic materials left over from the fighting.
The extraordinary rise in birth defects has crystallised over recent months as specialists working in Falluja’s over-stretched health system have started compiling detailed clinical records of all babies born.
Neurologists and obstetricians in the city interviewed by the Guardian say the rise in birth defects — which include a baby born with two heads, babies with multiple tumours, and others with nervous system problems — are unprecedented and at present unexplainable.
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