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Items by Professor Paola Manduca
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The biological legacy of warfare
Medical personnel in a majority of countries which have been attacked by armies using modern and chemical munitions, such as white phosphorus shells, have reported increases in the number of structural birth defects, as well as infants who are born with or later develop tumours. These effects become more evident…
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Determined to ignore reality? Questions that the Iraqi Ministry of Health-WHO report didn’t ask
Iraq’s Ministry of Health and the World Health Organisation have published a summary report of ex-post assessment of the prevalence of birth defects, still-births and miscarriages in the country obtained through a household survey. Before publication of the report, I criticised in the British Medical Journal (Rapid responses, September 10,…