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Fukushima Fallout: Washington State Birth Defects Cluster Leaves Scientists Stupified
via WRCB
A mysterious cluster of severe birth defects in rural Washington state is confounding health experts, who say they can find no cause, even as reports of new cases continue to climb.
Federal and state officials won’t say how many women in a three-county area near Yakima, Wash., have had babies with anencephaly, a heart-breaking condition in which they’re born missing parts of the brain or skull. And they admit they haven’t interviewed any of the women in question, or told the mothers there’s a potentially widespread problem.
But as of January 2013, officials with the Washington state health department and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had counted nearly two dozen cases in three years, a rate four times the national average.
I had a very personal experiece with the disease they are talking about. Anacephaly is when the unborn baby’s skull is missing parts of or its entire brain and/or skull. When my wife was pregnant with our first child, doctors said at one point that because some test came up weird that our son may have Anacephaly. It was heartbreaking to think about for a couple weeks until the doctors gave the all clear and healthy sign after a second conclusive test and I’m happy to say my son is a healthy ox. I feel for all the parents of these children, you have my sympathy.
