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  lovelytxwoman

  Aug. 5, 2006, 9:33 p.m.

  I see,and India's harrassing Coke and Pepsi about chemicals,yet they openly burn old MRI machine and toxic trash around children and pregnant women. No wonder!
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  lovelytxwoman

  Aug. 5, 2006, 9:35 p.m.

  Coke and Pepsi should use this to prove that India makes it own toxic world and this poor child is proof!
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  dawn-marie

  Aug. 5, 2006, 11:44 p.m.

  This is tragic!
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  Ranjha

  Aug. 6, 2006, 8:34 a.m.

  Horrifying spectacle. India should clean up its act. There is too much atmospheric pollution everywhere. Over population and poverty are the two main causes.
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  Mighty

  Aug. 6, 2006, 9:13 a.m.

  Childern with such disability usually die within the first month, very tragic. Nuclear and bio radiation are known to produce such birth mutations.
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  Miami_med

  Aug. 6, 2006, 9:14 a.m.

  This article is on someone's blog and isn't totally correct. This condition is often part of a larger condition known as Holoprosencephaly, in which there is a failure of the forebrain to develope properly. This is one of its most severe manifestations. This is often caused by a duplication of all or part of the 13th chromosome. This is the same process by which children are born with Down Syndrome due to duplication of the 21st chromosome, but it is more rare.

  Children have been rarely, but consistently, born with this condition throughout history. I doubt this has much to do with pollution, and it definitely doesn't have to be. The mother needs genetic testing to look for chromosomal translocation.
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  sukuji

  Aug. 6, 2006, 9:57 a.m.

  For god's sake please do not link this issue to justify what Pepsi and Coke are doing in India. It is a very stupid way of trying to protect the American multinationals who sell poison to children and make money. Yes. Pollution could exist in India in various other forms. Does it give licence to Pepsi & Coke to sell soft drinks with Pesticides ? Such thinking is highly idiotic... what else we can say ?

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