Surge in babies born without brains in Washington State
(NaturalNews) There is something seriously wrong in the fertile Yakima Valley region of Washington. A surging number of babies are being born with major birth defects, and the reasons why are eluding state health officials.
As reported by CNN, a nurse in the area, Sara Barron, was the first to report on a particularly horrifying condition: anencephaly — a condition in which babies are born without much of their brain and skull.
“I was just stunned,” she told the network in an interview. “Three in a couple-of-month period of time… that’s unheard of, and they have such tragic, terrible outcomes.”
Her shocking finding and report eventually prompted an investigation by the state health department. Investigators found some disturbing results.
Over a three-year period, there were 23 cases concentrated in three southern Washington counties — Yakima, Benton and Franklin. That’s a rate (8.4 per 10,000 live births) that is four times the national average (2.1 per 10,000 live births), CNN reported.
What could be causing such a phenomenon? Is it just one of those weird coincidences, or is something more sinister at play?
Mandy Stahre, with the Washington State Department of Health, conducted the investigation into the high rates of anencephaly. She says she and other investigators are stumped.
“We have not found an answer, and that’s a very frustrating part, because this is such a devastating diagnosis for a woman to have,” she told CNN.
Barron, however, says she wonders if state health authorities did not find anything because they didn’t look hard enough at all possible causes.
‘We have to weigh how invasive we want to be’
For one thing, she said, the health department has not spoken to any of the parents of the babies who had birth defects. So they don’t know what the parents may have eaten, or what environmental conditions they have been exposed to, or what kind of chemicals or substances they all might have come in contact with — like, perhaps, the pesticides that are routinely sprayed in the heavily agricultural region in which they live.
Andrea Jackman, whose daughter Olivia was born with spina bifida, another type of neural tube defect, said she wasn’t asked anything by state investigators.
“Nobody’s asked me anything,” she told the network.
So, exactly how did the state conduct its investigation? Stahre said investigators examined data in each parent’s medical record — what sort of prescription drugs they were taking and preexisting medical conditions.
“The study examined medical records from January 2010 through January 2013 and looked at possible risk factors including family history, pre-pregnancy weight, health risk behaviors such as supplemental folic acid and medication use, and whether the woman’s residence received drinking water from a public or private source. No significant differences were found when comparing cases of anencephaly with healthy births in the three county area,” said a health department press release.
“But medical records don’t have details about diet or pesticide exposure,” CNN’s Elizabeth Cohen reported, “two key considerations for this type of birth defect.”
Indeed, the health department — in its press release — even admitted: “Medical record reviews might not have captured all information, preventing a cause from being identified.”
So why not talk to the mothers?
“Well, we have to weigh that,” said Stahre. “This is a devastating diagnosis, and we know that for a lot of these women, they had to make some hard choices. We do have to weigh about how invasive we want to be with these types of reviews.”
Engineered end of humanity?
At least one mother — Jackman — said she would have “been fine” with being questioned. She wants answers so that other mothers don’t have to go through the same thing.
On the surface, this looks like yet another example of poisoning that Natural News editor and founder Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, wrote about recently when he said humanity doesn’t stand a chance of surviving this onslaught of corporate-sponsored genocide:
After having now analyzed over 1,000 foods, superfoods, vitamins, junk foods and popular beverages for heavy metals and other substances at the Natural News Forensic Food Labs, I have arrived at a conclusion so alarming and urgent that it can only be stated bluntly.
Based on what I am seeing via atomic spectroscopy analysis of all the dietary substances people are consuming on a daily basis, I must now announce that the battle for humanity is nearly lost. The food supply appears to be intentionally designed to end human life rather than nourish it.
You mean there are some Americans born WITH brains?. Wow! I didn’t know that!
On a serious note the article states that heavy metals are the culprit – get rid of them from your body and your spouse and childrens body with food grade bentonite clay
It dissolves completely in water from a fine powder. If interested I can give you the finest grade i have found so far.
Yes, that’s been going on in California for years. Natural born liberal democrats. You know, the ones that put BO in office.
You do realize that the polarity between Dems and Republicans is false, as in BS? What if the whole lib/con dichotomy was instituted to keep people fighting among themselves by inventing false ideological opposition? What if we all stopped demonizing each other for having implanted beliefs and realize that we all have the same desires and needs, and that politics is nothing but a joke instituted to keep us divided? It really is, once you stop and recognize you’re being played.
New generation of flat-earthers being born…in families of tin-foil hatters.
Fukashima?
Chemtrails!
http://imageevent.com/firesat/strangedaysstrangeskies
That’s what I was thinking.
Washington state? That bastion of liberalism
? Well they were lucky to be born at all #1, and #2 PROOF that if your parents don’t have a brain cell, you won’t either.
But,
very pitiful if true !!! I agree with Linda, probably the ELE of Fukishima!!!
You reap what you sow.
they are called Liberal Democrats!
Your insensitivity is appalling.
Is it tar and feather time yet?
“The food supply appears to be intentionally designed to end life rather than nourish it.”
If we lose our life we have nothing left to lose.
Shall we sit here till we die?
Or, join together and put a stop to being poisoned by The Powers That Be.
What do we have left to lose?
Without life we have nothing anyway.
It’s called the Hanford Nuclear Facility Waste site, a Super fund waste site, the Gov’t lies. The nuclear waste they said they had contained, has leaked into the water tables. and under ground river. YOUR DRINKING THAT WATER, IT’S IN THE WATER. There is a cancer cluster and baby death cluster in East / South East Washington state of babies born with parts of their skulls missing or no brain because the DNA gets confused once it’s growing and multiplying and gets radiation signals which interfere with development. SOUTH EAST WASHINGTON STATE HAS A PROBLEM. INFANT DEATH, STILL BORN, BIRTH DEFECTS FROM THE DRINKING WATER FROM THE CONTAMINATED SUPERFUND NUCLEAR FUND WASTE SITE THAT HAS NOW FINALLY REACHED WATER TABLES, AND THE GOV’T LIES AND COVERS IT UP. WAKE THE F&CK UP. JAIL THOSE WHO MISMANAGED THIS SUPER FUND SITE.
Hanford Site -
The Hanford Site is a mostly decommissioned nuclear production complex operated by the United States federal government on the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington. Benton County, WA
Jim Stone’s site has info on this being caused by the new diphtheria tetanus vaccine being given to pregnant mothers, especially in Brazil
We invented machines to replace our own working skills, this is called Industry, and see, we progrediently lose our skills. Today many people can no longer mend a sock or replace a button on their shirts.
Later on we invented machines to replace our brains, called Computers, Smartphones and so on, and see, we get more and more stupid – except as to handling the machines. Today many people cannot calculate by hand anymore.
Babies born without brains are only the tip of this karmic iceberg.
We got to return to work with our own hands and brains. Only then we got a chance to survive. And to be happy.
radiation from japan ?
Also, reports from India of a female child being born with 1/2 skull and gigantic eyes.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3412269/Baby-girl-born-India-half-head-gigantic-eyes-bulbous-couldn-t-closed.html
They probably received too much factory waste (fluoride) in their water. All fluoridation must end NOW. It’s just another example of the insanity we are living in.