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Published: 18 November, 2009, 00:38
Edited: 12 June, 2010, 20:55


(AFP Photo / Ahmad Al-Rubaye)

Medics in the Iraqi city of Fallujah are appealing to the international community for an investigation into an unnatural increase in birth defects, which they say are up by 15 times compared to pre-war levels.

 
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Arthur Borges June 12, 2010, 16:19 quote
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Birth defects were already way up after the first Gulf War.

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