… Why would anyone find this the least bit surprising … it’s our American efficacy we left in Vietnam thanks to “agent orange” & now it’s the legacy we leave in Iraq thanks to depleted uranium bullets …
Severe Birth Defects Soar in Post-War Iraq
Sunday, 28 October 2012 10:36By Julia Kallas, Inter Press Service
A new study confirms what many Iraqi doctors have been saying for years – that there is a virtual epidemic of rare congenital birth defects in cities that suffered bombing and artillery and small arms fire in the U.S.-led attacks and occupations of the country.
The hardest hit appear to be Fallujah (2004), a city in central Iraq, and Basra in the south (December 1998, March and April 2003).
Records show that the total number of birth defects observed by medical staff at Al Basrah Maternity Hospital more than doubled between 2003 and 2009. In Fallujah, between 2007 and 2010, more than half the children born there had some form of birth defect, compared to less than two percent in 2000.
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