Posted on 08/16/2005 2:52:25 PM PDT by Alouette
After lowering infant mortality rates among Arabs in western Galilee through the reduction of neonatal infections, early detection and encouraging abortions of fetuses with major and lethal congenital defects, public health experts are now focusing on the last main cause of babies' deaths in this population: inbreeding.
Dr. Avshalom Strulov of the University of Haifa's Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Studies and of the Health Ministry's Northern District health office reports in the August issue of the Israel Medical Association Journal about efforts to discourage Arab first cousins and other close relatives from marrying. Such consanguineous marriages, he writes, "are not part of the Islamic religion" and are indeed harmful since they lead to the conception of fetuses with serious inherited diseases.
The district health office has initiated a project in areas with large Arab populations that includes study days for health personnel, initiation of reports against inbreeding in the Arabic-language mass media, and encouragement of Muslim religious leaders to declare in mosques that this practice is likely to produce defective children.
Most of the activity, however, recruits elementary and high-school teachers in the Arab sector who speak to pupils about the dangers of marrying close relatives. "The effect on the reduction of the rates of consanguineous marriages should be observable within years, and the effect on infant mortality within generations," Strulov predicts.
The three-pronged effort would further reduce the gap in infant mortality rates between the Jewish and Arab populations in Israel, he said. In 2002, the annual infant mortality rate was 4.0 per 1,000 live births among Jews and 9.0 among Arabs; in the Northern District, it was 5.4 among Jews and 7.8 among Arabs.
Strulov was appointed by the ministry nearly two decades ago as coordinator of a multi-professional and multi-organizational committee that aimed at reducing the gap in infant mortality between the two sectors as much as possible.
In the early Eighties, the rate among Arabs was 22.6 per 1,000 live births and half that among Jews.
The main causes of deaths of Arab babies in summer were acute gastrointestinal infections and diarrhea, and in winter, upper respiratory tract infections and hypothermia (low body temperature due to inadequate heating).
Information campaigns about preventing and treating both of these conditions, as well as better means for refrigeration and hygiene, brought these deaths almost down to zero.
Ultrasound facilities, doctors and subsidies by Clalit Health Services significantly increased the early detection of severe congenital defects in fetuses, most of whose mothers decided on an abortion.
The remaining major problem was consanguinity, said Strulov, and while progress on this took many years, movement was in the right direction.
Here's the weiners in tin-foil thread ... enjoy!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1464567/posts
I thought EVERYONE had seen this! It's the first time in a long time that one story seems to be talked about on every thread I click on ...
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If a muslim any won a scientific award working in a non-muslim country, it doesn't count!
That, however, does not cover the last 1500 years.
"Were their other kids between Joseph and Mary?"
Depends if you ask a Protestant or Roman catholic.
Protestants point to verses that indicate other children.
Roman catholics state that those verses are not clear and state that Mary was ever-virginal.
I would love to see the references for that!
Longer than 1500 --- whenever Leviticus came out -- what 2000BC? 1500 BC I have no idea.
Anyway, longer than 2004 years, plus a lot more.
Kerry is a descendant of the same line that gave us the Shahs of Iran.
Answers a lot of questions about Arab behavior.....
Are you aware that this is a totally ambiguous (antriguous?) statement?
Who is "they"?
The parents?
The children?
All of them?
sounds A LOT like South Central Pennsylvania.....like the town of Waynesboro....
I swear that town of upwards of 15,000 had only 4 last names.....
Wow...would love to read that piece...do you recall where you read this?
Title should be shortened to delete "infant".
That would explain the tendency to strap explosives to themselves (as adults) and light the fuse.
Your question told me more about you than I care to know. You should save revalations about yourself for your personal page.
I was referring to it's comparison to islam.
Prior to 1500 years ago, there was no islam, I don't care what they claim!
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