Video: Iraqi cancer figures soar

2009-10-13 | Doctors in Iraq are recording a sharp rise in the number of cancer victims south of Baghdad. Sufferers in the province of Babil have risen almost tenfold in just three years. Locals blame depleted uranium from US military equipment used in the 2003 invasion. Some 500 cases of cancer were diagnosed in 2004 alone. That figure rose to almost 1,000 two years later. In 2008, the number of cases increased sevenfold to 7,000 diagnoses. This year, there have so far been more than 9,000 new cases, and the number is rising. MORE http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/10/20091012122745236765.html Please also see: Water shortages causes 100,000 to flee homes in Iraq: UN AFP http://www.uruknet.de/index.php?p=m58877&hd=&size=1&l=e Please see related DU articles in our archives.