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World News Australia - Iraqi city has higher cancer rates than Hiroshima

World News Australia - Iraqi city has higher cancer rates than Hiroshima
A report has been published indicating cancers and other diseases in the Iraqi city of Fallujah are significantly higher than those of the survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs of 1945.

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