WHO Suppressed Scientific Study

WHO Refuses to Publish Report on Cancers and Birth Defects in Iraq Caused by Depleted Uranium Ammunition

By Denis Halliday

Un estudio de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) realizado por tres científicos expertos en el efecto de la radiación radioactiva sobre el organismo humano, permanece como "material clasificado". Lo que se sabe, por otras investigaciones, es que tanto adultos como niños que inhalan polvo procedente de material radiactivo  de municiones con uranio, pueden desarrollar tumores cancerosos u otras patologías graves. Con frecuencia la exposición de mujeres a dichas sustancias determina la aparición de malformaciones congénitas en su descendencia. La población civil es la que suele sufrir tales daños ya que las tropas cuenta con métodos de detección, mascaras, vestimenta aislante así como recursos para la descontaminación. 

Tropas estadounidenses con protección contra posible ataque químico.

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The World Health Organisation (WHO)  has categorically refused in defiance of its own mandate to share evidence uncovered in Iraq that US military use of Depleted Uranium and other weapons have not only killed many civilians, but continue to result in the birth of deformed babies.
This issue was first brought to light in 2004 in a WHO expert report “on the long-term health of Iraq’s civilian population resulting from depleted uranium (DU) weapons”. This earlier report was “held secret”, namely suppressed by the WHO:
The study by three leading radiation scientists cautioned that children and adults could contract cancer after breathing in dust containing DU, which is radioactive and chemically toxic. But it was blocked from publication by the World Health Organization (WHO), which employed the main author, Dr Keith Baverstock, as a senior radiation advisor. He alleges that it was deliberately suppressed, though this is denied by WHO. (See Rob Edwards, WHO ‘Suppressed’ Scientific Study Into Depleted Uranium Cancer Fears in Iraq,  The Sunday Herald, February 24, 2004)
Almost nine years later,  a joint WHO- Iraqi Ministry of Health Report on cancers and birth defect in Iraq was to be released in November 2012. “It has been delayed repeatedly and now has no release date whatsoever.”
To this date the WHO study remains “classified”.
According to Hans von Sponeck, former Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations,

“The US government sought to prevent the WHO from surveying areas in southern Iraq where depleted uranium had been used and caused serious health and environmental dangers.” (quoted in Mozhgan Savabieasfahani Rise of Cancers and Birth Defects in Iraq: World Health Organization Refuses to Release Data, Global Research, July 31, 2013