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Bethany Faber

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Following the Gulf War in Iraq, the potential for increased birth defects related to war-related exposure became a public health concern. To investigate this, an interdisciplinary collaboration conducted anthropological interviews of parents in Fallujah, Iraq, between December 2022 and February 2023. In this analysis, participant's self-reported experiences of exposure to military conflict events were identified. Previous literature was reviewed to examine potential environmental contaminants related to each documented self-reported military conflict. There were 16 types of military conflict events reported, including hot houses, burn pits, smoke, dust, and air strike exposure. Predominantly recorded were hot houses, reported by 32% of participants (286 total exposures: 134 mother exposures and 152 father exposures). For the literature review, data on specific military action events and measured environmental contaminants were extracted from the papers. A total of 13 papers were identified that met inclusion criteria: from an acclaimed source, evident analysis of toxicants from an identified exposure (corresponding to participants' reported exposures), with reliable and reported conclusions constructed by data (with minimal bias). A total of 3 (23%) of the papers identified uranium contamination; 2 papers (15%) reported titanium contamination; 2 of the papers (15%) identified recorded fine particulate matter contamination. Many of these articles recorded multiple toxicants related to individual military conflict events. These results will provide insight into potential environmental contaminants that participants in Fallujah may have been exposed to during the military conflict, and provide a basis for further analyses. Keywords: [no keywords provided]

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Purdue University / 2024

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Bethany Faber