Mysterious cluster of birth defects stumps doctors!!!Mysterious I think not ask Starfish

Then in 2012, while working at a hospital in rural Washington state, she saw two cases in two months.

To see that many in such a small hospital seemed bizarre to her.

Barron mentioned the unusual spike to an obstetrician friend working at another hospital 30 miles away. That doctor had just seen a case of anencephaly, too.

That's it, Barron thought to herself. She called the state Department of Health and made a report.

Barron's phone call spurred epidemiologists into action. They went through hospital and doctors' records in a three-county area and found 23 cases of anencephaly from January 2010 to January 2013. Such a finding meant a rate of 8.4 cases per 10,000 live births -- four times higher than the national average of 2.1 cases per 10,000


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