Birth defects in Fallajuh children on the rise since US invasion

By Ben Leach Published: 11:08AM GMT 04 March 2010

US marines unit the city of Fallujah Photo: AFP/GETTY IMAGES

The turn of heart defects between baby babies in the city is right away pronounced to be thirteen times higher than in Europe.

Some doctors have reported they are saying as most as dual or 3 cases a day, especially cardiac defects.

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Malik Hamadan, a British-based Iraqi researcher, told the BBC"s World Today programme that doctors in Fallujah were witnessing a "massive rare number" of heart defects, and an enlarge in the series of shaken complement defects.

"I"ve seen footage of babies innate with an eye in the center of the forehead, the nose on the forehead," she said.

She combined that one alloy pronounced that in 2003 they would see about one box each dual months but right away they are saying cases each day.

Miss Hamadan pronounced that formed on interpretation from Jan this year, the rate of inborn heart defects was 95 per 1,000 births. This is thirteen times the rate found in Europe.

Many doctors hold the complaint is the rarely worldly weapons the US infantry used during extreme fighting in Fallujah 6 years ago.

Local people hold poisonous materials left over from the 2004 fighting entered the H2O supply in the city after rubble from shop-worn buildings was bulldozed in to the river.

Last year a organisation of Iraqi and British officials called on the UN to ask that an eccentric cabinet entirely examine the defects and assistance purify up poisonous materials left over after decades of war.

But the US troops says it is not wakeful of any central reports display an enlarge in bieing born defects in the area.

Michael Kilpatrick, a orator for the US military, pronounced it took open health concerns "very seriously".

"No studies to date have indicated environmental issues ensuing in specific health issues," he said.

"Unexploded ordinance, together with makeshift bomb devises, are a recognized hazard."