Talk:State Britain
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The dead baby
[edit]I saw a bit about the State Britain exhibit on the news the other day, and thought I recognised the picture of the dead baby, supposedly "maimed and burnt in missile a attack" (quote from the State Britain article) in it. So I did a little research into it, and found out the photo (that can be seen in the article's first external link here) is actually a photo of a little baby boy who died, aged 3 weeks of cardiovascular arrest due to a rare disease called "Harlequin type ichthyosis", at the Pamukkale University Hospital in Denizli, TURKEY! This dead child was nothing to do with the war in Iraq or the "War on Terror" or whatever, he was born to unrelated parents in their early 20's after a normal pregnancy. Here is the source for this of course; http://www.ispub.com/ostia/index.php?xmlFilePath=journals/ijd/vol1n1/harlequin.xml It's a case study about the child (be warned though, the pictures are pretty grim). Ryan4314 (talk) 07:06, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
- Did a little more research with some help (you know who you are ;), here is a close up of the photo in the State Britain exhibit [1]. Obviously it's not the same photo as the one in the case study (although it might be the same baby), but it is quite clearly a Harlequin baby and not the effect of a bomb blast. It's a pity the tag on the child in the photo is only partly exposed and we can't see any writing, then we'd be able to work out what country it was. Ryan4314 (talk) 02:56, 8 December 2007 (UTC)