Talk:Anencephaly

Don't make stats US-specific
How does the annual incidence in the US translate into per 1000 pregnancies? 01:04, 31 December 2006‎ (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.14.85.215 (talk)

YouTube video
Is this it? Maybe add it to the external links? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N_ivaTe588&NR=1 12:47, 28 April 2007‎ (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.14.85.215 (talk)

Causes ?
I came across this article from a crosslink via the ‘fusarium’ page.

If this can be confirmed and substantiated, or accepted for inclusion without citation as it has been on the fusarium page, I think it should be included here, as a possible epidemiological factor, as it is very easy for such information to get ‘lost’ in the shuffle of time but, even if only conjecture, it is not insignificant.

From the fusarium wiki page:

“Following an outbreak of Fusarium oxysporum that affected coca plantations in Peru, and other crops planted in the area, the United States has proposed the use of the agent as a mycoherbicide in drug eradication. In 2000, a proposal was passed to use the agent as part of Plan Colombia. In response to concerns use of the fungus could be perceived as biological warfare, the Clinton Administration "waived" this use of Fusarium. A subsequent law passed in 2006 has mandated the testing of mycoherbicide agents - either Fusarium oxysporum or Crivellia papaveracea - in field trials in U.S. territory.[13] Use of Fusarium oxysporum for these tests has raised concerns because resistant coca from the previous outbreak has been widely cultivated, and the fungus has been implicated in the birth of 31 anencephalic children in the Rio Grande region of Texas in 1991[citation needed], the loss of palm trees in Echo Park, Los Angeles[14], and eye infections from contact lens solutions.[15] The alternative Crivellia papaveracea is less well known; despite decades of study in the Soviet biowarfare lab in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, the relevant mycotoxins reportedly have not yet been isolated, named, or studied.[13]” Genetikbliss (talk) 22:56, 10 July 2019 (UTC)

contradiction on feeling pain
in Signs and Symptoms it states:

"A baby born with anencephaly is usually ... unable to feel pain.

...

Due to the presence of the brainstem, children with anencephaly have almost all the primitive reflexes of a newborn, responding to auditory, vestibular and painful stimuli."

Ttulinsky (talk) 03:27, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

Notable Individuals
maybe add Jaxon Buell? he survived 5 years with anencephaly 199.180.118.48 (talk) 03:38, 12 October 2023 (UTC)