Iraqi woman gives birth to one-eyed child

[News_Editor]

Iraqi woman gives birth to one-eyed child

2011-09-11 16:40:10 GMT+7 (ICT)

KARBALA (BNO NEWS) -- An Iraqi woman has given birth to a baby girl who has one eye and no nose, local media reported on Sunday. It is the second time the woman gave birth to a deformed child.

Doctors said the baby was recently born at the Women and Delivery Hospital in Karbala, the capital of Karbala Governorate, according to the Aswat al-Iraq news agency. "One of our women delivery chambers has witnessed a strange birth," a doctor told the news agency.

Dr. Sabah Nour Hadi al-Moussawi said the 24-year-old mother from Najaf gave birth to a baby girl who has only one eye, no nose and a distorted ear. Moussawi said it was the first such case ever at the hospital, but noted that the woman previously also gave birth to a deformed child who died several years ago.

It was not immediately known what caused the deformations. In March 2010, doctors in the Iraqi city of Falluja reported high levels of birth defects, mainly involving the heart and nervous system.

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[chinook]

Bit of a half-baked news article.......is there more to come or are you waiting for forum members to do it for you?

[Scott]

Difficult to know the cause. A lot of chemicals floating around Iraq and a lot of marriages to family members.

[mpoppel]

Difficult to know the cause. A lot of chemicals floating around Iraq and a lot of marriages to family members.

Here is a picture of the child: http://ar.aswataliraq.info/Default1.aspx?page=article_page&id=284207

Sad..

[Orac]

Depleted Uranium is one of the possible culprits but no conclusive evidence has been found yet as far as I can tell.

Finally, the results reported here do not throw any light upon the identity of the agent(s) causing the increased levels of illness and although we have drawn attention to the use of depleted uranium as one potential relevant exposure, there may be other possibilities and we see the current study as investigating the anecdotal evidence of increases in cancer and infant mortality in Fallujah.

Full report here http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/7/7/2828/pdf

and a more 'sensationalised' story here from the Daily Mail last year

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1255312/Birth-defects-Fallujah-rise-U-S-operation.html