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- Water pollution in Uzbekistan has led to an increase in birth defects and complications in pregnancy.
- Pesticide exposures in central Sudan are linked to 22% of hospital stillbirths.
- Air pollution in the Ukraine has been linked to 21% of all illnesses affecting women and children.
- One in three women in the United States will be diagnosed with cancer sometime during her life.
- Nuclear contamination in Chelyabinsk, Russia has led to a 21% increase in cancer and a 25% increase in birth defects. Half the women of childbearing age in this country are sterile.
- In Guatemala, pesticide residues in breast milk are reported to be 250 times the amounts allowed in cow's milk.
- Most children in China take in Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane (DDT) from breast milk at levels 10 times higher than internationally accepted maximums.