Doctors To Study Birth Defects In Iraq
DU, depleted uranium, that is found in most American munitions is suspected. The doctors intend to disprove the notion.
Doctors To Study Iraq Birth Defects
By Lisa Holland
Foreign Affairs correspondent
Updated:12:40, Tuesday June 10, 2008
Sky News recently reported on families in the Iraqi city of Fallujah who are calling for an independent investigation into their concerns about a rise in the number of newborn babies suffering from deformities.
They raised concerns about the weapons used by American forces in 2004 during the war in Iraq - and are now questioning whether there could be any links with the deformities.
As a result of seeing our exclusive report, one of the world's leading authorities on foetal medicine, Professor Kypros Nicolaides, has decided to offer three scholarships to obstetricians in Fallujah.
An ophthalmologist said he deals with four or five case of newborn babies every week suffering from some form of eye deformity - and that's risen in the last two years.
At one of the cemeteries in Fallujah, undertaker Mahmoud Hummadi said he usually buries four to five newborns every day and most of them are deformed.
Speaking on Sky News, Professor Nicolaides said: "I was very disturbed by the report."
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We've known about DU exposure for what? 25, 30 or more years? And we're still using it in our conventional weaponry? Even exposing our own troops to it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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