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First Skin Cancer in Syria as result of Sarin: laboratory analysis reveal

 Jouri was born with congenital disorder as result of chemical raid on al-Bayyada and al-Khaledia neighborhoods of Homs, year ago, laboratory analysis revealed.

 Doctors who took biopsy from the 4-month-old in the Jordanian Hospitals said her leg should be amputated even if it's non-malignant tumor.

 Jouri (The Rose in Arabic) was a fetus that day her mother's womb but her skin cancer has appeared in her first weeks after birth.

Mohamed Wael Obeid, Jouri's Father, who fled to Jordan months ago was described the raid which left 7 people killed and tens of wounded.

  ''We didn't know that was Sarin-we don't know what Sarin means- just we were sure of  a chemical weapon, we were in hysterical with eye pain, cough, chest tightness, rapid breathing, loss of consciousness and temporary paralysis..''

 White House officials said last Thursday that US intelligence agencies, working with European allies, concluded that Syrian regime had employed the gas in its fight with rebels, according to AFP

''Bashar al-Assad has used chemical gas on his own people, killing as many as 150 Syrians.'' 

France and Britain have already said lab tests of samples from Syria showed the regime had resorted to chemical weapons.

Inhaled or absorbed through the skin, the gas kills by crippling the respiratory center of the central nervous system and paralyzes the muscles around the lungs.

The combination results in death by suffocation, and sarin can also be used to contaminate food or water supplies, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which notes that antidotes exist.

The Syrian regime is believed to control hundreds of tones of various chemical agents, according to Leonard Specter of the Monterey Institute of International Studies.

 The Syrian regime also has the means to deliver its chemical agents, with Scud missiles, artillery shells and aerial bombs, according to defense analysts.

However, Damascus has refused to allow United Nations experts access to investigate the chemical weapons allegations despite appeals by UN chief Ban Ki-moon.

 The name sarin comes from the chemists who discovered it by chance: Schrader, Ambros, Ruediger et Van der Linde. The scientists had been trying to create stronger pesticides but the formula was then taken up by the Nazi military for chemical weapons.

 On July 23, 2012 , was the first admitting by the Assad regime of possessing a stockpile of chemical weapons which it claims are reserved for national defense against foreign countries.  During the Syrian civil war in August 2012, the Syrian military restarted chemical weapons testing at a base on the outskirts of Aleppo.  Chemical weapons were a major point of discussion between the Syrian government and world leaders, with military intervention being considered by the West as a potential consequence of the use of such weapons.

 Nerve agents are generally quick-acting and require only simple chemical techniques and inexpensive, readily available ingredients to manufacture.

  Even Sarin when it does not kill, it effects can cause permanent harm, damaging a victim's lungs, eyes and central nervous system.

 Jouri situation faced the weight of neglect and indifference by relief organizations and charities that did not move a finger toward a child, worth to live.

 Reporting by Faris al-Refai

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

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