ICM Blamed for Increase in Birth Abnormalities
Posted on Tuesday, March 07 @ 11:10:12 EST
Topic: Current Events
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A four month old girl born with a partially-developed second head is to undergo an extensive operation to prevent severe brain damage in later life. However, following a series of birth defects in both children and animals in the New London area, people are beginning to ask questions about who, or what exactly is responsible for it.
An operation is planned to remove the second head of a four month old girl born in the Watchwater area of New London. The child, Pamela Andrews was born with two heads, the second being severely underdeveloped and connected to the first, facing upwards. The operation is likely to take several hours, and carries with it severe risks.
Pamela's birth is part of a string of birth defects currently plaguing the city. Over the past few months, doctors at New London's St Dysmus Hospital have seen a rise in rare defects and abnormalities in children that have included extensive deformities to the feet, hands and arms and at least one case of the rare Harlequin baby syndrome.
For the past eight months, pet-owners in New London and farmers in the surrounding area have also reported an unusually high number of animals born with significant defects or deformities, and questions are being asked about what, exactly, is responsible for it.
Many have pointed the finger at the ICM Chemical Processing Plant which rests just down-river from New London, and have begun to wonder if some of the dangerous chemicals handled at the plant may have somehow found their way into the outside environment. However, ICM have strongly denied all implications that they are in some way responsible for the rise in birth defects and genetic abnormalities in New London and the surrounding area, and Dr Peterson, a genetic specialist at St Dysmus's Hospital, also believes that the chemical plant is not to blame.
"Given the nature of the chemicals that are handled by the plant," he said in a recent statement to the press. "It is highly unlikely that, even if they did find their way into the environment, that they would cause the defects we have been seeing in newborn children and animals in the city and the surrounding area. We have seen and heard reports of many different cases, and the conditions seem to be completely unrelated. It is far more likely that the deformities we have seen are both unconnected, and purely coincidental."
However, it is inevitable that many in the city will point the finger at ICM, stating that it is the only logical explanation for the marked increase in the abnormalities they have witnessed in newborn children and animals.
Parents and couples have been urged not to panic and told that the chances of their unborn children exhibiting severe birth defects are still very low. If they are still concerned, they should refer to their doctor who will be able to advice them further.
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