He had been born two weeks earlier with a large sac containing part of his brain protruding from the back of his skull, according to a hospital photograph. This defect, called encephalocele, has a high fatality rate, but the doctors on duty said he was recovering from the surgeries that removed the sac and drained the excess spinal fluid.
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/fallujah-iraq-birth-defects/
pronounced: En-Seph-a-Low-Seal
Encephalocele
A 2009 survey at Fallujah General Hospital noted that out of 170 births in one month, 75% had deformities
For instance, a 2012 study published in Environmental Contamination and Toxicology noted a sevenfold increase in birth defects in Basra between 1994 and 2003.
So is that encephalocele or .... I think it is!!
rate of cancer cases in Iraq was 40 out of 100,000 people. By 1995, it had increased to 800 out of 100,000 people, and, by 2005, it had doubled to at least 1,600 out of 100,000 people. Current estimates show the increasing trend continuing.
increasing numbers of birth defects, especially neural tube defects
polluted water, which could contain radiation from weapons used in previous conflicts, was the main factor behind the increase.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9946842/
An encephalocele is a congenital neural tube defect that is estimated to have an incidence of 1–2 cases per 10,000 live births. There have been a few cases of double encephaloceles reported in the medical literature.
fine fly ash produced when coal is burned contains concentrated levels of uranium and a new report published by Russia's leading nuclear research institution warns of an increased radiation hazard to people living near coal-fired thermal power stations.
The test results for children born and living in areas around the state's power stations show high levels of uranium in their bodies. Tests on ground water show that levels of uranium around the plants are up to 15 times the World Health Organisation's maximum safe limits. Tests also show that it extends across large parts of the state, which is home to 24 million people.
The findings have implications not only for the rest of India – Punjab produces two-thirds of the wheat in the country's central reserves and 40% of its rice – but for many other countries planning to build new power plants, including China, Russia, India, Germany and the US. In Britain, there are plans for a coal-fired station at the Kingsnorth facility in Kent.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/aug/30/india-punjab-children-uranium-pollution
Tests showed Kulwinder has 19 times the maximum safe level of uranium in his body. He has cerebral palsy and has already had seven operations to unbend his arms and legs.
The actual rate of cancer and other diseases is likely to be much higher than even these figures suggest, due to a lack of adequate documentation, research and reporting of cases.
https://truthout.org/articles/iraqi-doctors-call-depleted-uranium-use-genocide/
“The air, soil and water are all polluted by these [DU] weapons, and as they come into contact with human beings they become poisonous. This is new to our region, and people are suffering here.”
Researchers found more than 20 babies out of 1,000 were born with defects in Al
Basrah Maternity Hospital in 2003, a number that is 17 times higher than recorded a decade previously. In the past seven years, the number of malformed babies born increased by more than 60 per cent; 37 out of every 1,000 are now born with defects.
The report's authors link the rising number of babies born with birth defects in the two cities to increased exposure to metals released by bombs and bullets used over the past two decades. Scientists who studied hair samples of the population in Fallujah found that levels of lead were five times higher in the hair of children with birth defects than in other children;
mercury levels were six times higher. Children with defects in Basra had three times more lead in their teeth than children living in non-impacted areas.
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