| inbluevt | Date: Thursday, 2013/10/17, 11:42 AM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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NOTE: This study does NOT include the tens of thousands of lives destroyed by depleted uranium - a chemical that resulted in the births of horribly deformed infants. Neither does it include the horrific wounds, both physical and psychological of the illegal and immoral
invasion of Iraq.
BAGHDAD, Oct. 16 (UPI) -- The number of deaths in the war in Iraq is nearing a half-million people, a collaborative study by U.S. Canadian and Iraqi researchers found.
Using data from two surveys, the researchers estimated 405,000 people were killed and projected 55,800 more deaths from migration into and emigration from Iraq because of the war, al-Jazeera America reported Wednesday.
The study, released Tuesday and published in PLoS Medicine, included a survey of 2,000 Iraqi households in 100 geographic regions in Iraq. Researchers used two surveys -- one involving the
household and one asking residents about their siblings to try to demonstrate the accuracy of the data collected. The researchers estimated 60 percent of the deaths were violent and 40 percent occurred because of health infrastructure issues that were present because of the U.S. invasion. She said about half of the non-violent deaths were attributed to inadequate treatment for cardiovascular disease.
"I hope that one of the takeaways from this paper will be that when we invade a country, there are many health consequences that aren't directly related to violence," said study author Amy Hagopian, program director of the community-oriented public-health practice at the University of Washington School of Public Health.
Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_New....zwKi2MW
Iraqi women pray at the grave of a relative at the Martyr's cemetery in Najaf, Iraq
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