The study called “Cancer, Infant Mortality and Birth Sex-Ratio in Fallujah, Iraq 2005–2009,” was conducted between January and February of this year by a team of eleven researchers and led by Chris Busby, Malak Hamdan and Entesar Ariabi. 711 homes were visited in Fallujah during the research, and 4,843 people were interviewed.

The study says the level of cancer diagnoses among the population increased after the US attack on the city five years ago. The levels of leukemia are 38 times the ones registered in Egypt, Jordan and Kuwait, while the cancer probability in children is 12 times higher and the potential for breast cancer is ten times higher.

Meanwhile, the levels of lymphoma and brain tumors in adults, as well as the levels of child mortality are significantly higher in Fallujah than in the mentioned countries.

Also, another anomaly has been registered in Fallujah, referred to the increasing proportion of births of baby girls, which according to the researchers is the result of a mutagenic effect.

In an interview with Italian news network RAI – taken up by the Tehran
Times newspaper- Chris Busby, molecular biology professor of the Ulster University, said that “To produce an effect like this, some very major mutagenic exposure must have occurred in 2004 when the attacks happened”.

“We need urgently to find out what the agent was. Although many suspect uranium, we cannot be certain without further research and independent analysis of samples from the area.”

However, the academic said it was possible that the mutations were the result of the use of impoverished uranium, which the US army used in its armament, and which once used up to 40% of it is released in small particles in the area, where it could last years.

Impoverished uranium attacks the human DNA and the genetic code which is in the sperm and eggs, causing serious damage to the future generations.

Last year, a group of doctors had approached the United Nations so that the increase of radiation-related diseases was studied, but the Pentagon had responded that there were no scientific studies relating the US attacks with the increase in diseases and mutations.

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