Germany: several kids born without hands at the same hospital in a few months

[Tender Branson]

The hospital said there were no "ethnic, cultural or social similarities" between the affected families that could explain the deformities, and it noted that all lived within the local area.

Liggett-Igelmund told CNN that she learned about the cases in Gelsenkirchen when talking to fellow midwives on online midwifery forums.

She said that while deformities such as these "do occur," they are typically "so rare," and seeing three similar deformities in the space of a few months was "too much."

"To me, it sounded like something much bigger," she said. "One midwife came across one case in her whole career. Three in three months is not normal."

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/16/health/hand-deformities-babies-gelsenkirchen-germany-intl-scli-grm/index.html

The same thing happened in France last year, but at a much larger scale.

Not to mention the thousands of cases in Argentina, where Monsanto and others use their Glyphosate pesticides to spray the fields next to pregnant women ...

Big agro and chemical companies are committing crimes against humanity !

[DINGO Joe]

"It was only a couple of flipper babies!"

[dead0man]

The hospital said there were no "ethnic, cultural or social similarities" between the affected families that could explain the deformities, and it noted that all lived within the local area.

Liggett-Igelmund told CNN that she learned about the cases in Gelsenkirchen when talking to fellow midwives on online midwifery forums.

She said that while deformities such as these "do occur," they are typically "so rare," and seeing three similar deformities in the space of a few months was "too much."

"To me, it sounded like something much bigger," she said. "One midwife came across one case in her whole career. Three in three months is not normal."

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/16/health/hand-deformities-babies-gelsenkirchen-germany-intl-scli-grm/index.html

The same thing happened in France last year, but at a much larger scale.

Not to mention the thousands of cases in Argentina, where Monsanto and others use their Glyphosate pesticides to spray the fields next to pregnant women ...

Big agro and chemical companies are committing crimes against humanity !

Americans use glyphosate at higher rates and for longer, yet we aren't birthing an odd number of babies without hands.  To be fair, neither you nor the article has really domonstrated that Europe is either.

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When my late grandma was in the hospital in the late 2008, she meet a woman who gave birth to a child without a head twice. I can't possibly come close to imagine how morbid it was.

[Ban my account ffs!]

When my late grandma was in the hospital in the late 2008, she meet a woman who gave birth to a child without a head twice. I can't possibly come close to imagine how morbid it was.

That is rough...luckily the kids didn’t mind.

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When my late grandma was in the hospital in the late 2008, she meet a woman who gave birth to a child without a head twice. I can't possibly come close to imagine how morbid it was.

That is rough...luckily the kids didn’t mind.

I'm ashamed at my reaction to this post.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

can't you just give them robot arms or something?