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5 births in same street have same birth defect

niuniu

niuniu

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Mar 29, 2009
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A man of the people. The right sort of people.
Could turn out to be something in the environment. Law suit inc no doubt.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-17064638

BBC said:
An MP has joined calls for an investigation after five babies in the same Kent street were found to have the same rare birth defect.

The babies all have gastroschisis, a condition where part of the bowel protrudes through the abdomen.

Their mothers all lived in Waterdales, Northfleet, when they became pregnant.
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If the cause is environmental, then it'd have to be something introduced very recently as the article states the area has been residential for close to 60 years.
 
Perhaps someone has been spraying something they shouldn’t.

There is some evidence that the prevalence of gastroschisis is higher in areas where surface water agricultural chemical levels are high and when conception occurs in the spring (the time when agricultural chemicals (eg, atrazine) are commonly applied)

(Agrichemicals in surface water and birth defects in the United States. Acta Paediatr. 2009;98(4):664).
 
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