Since 2001, medical personnel at the Basra hospital in southern Iraq have reported a sharp increase in the incidence of child leukemia and genetic malformation among babies born in the decade following the Gulf War. Iraqi doctors attributed these malformations to possible long-term effects of DU, an opinion that was echoed by several newspapers.[73][124][125][126] In 2004, Iraq had the highest mortality rate due to leukemia of any country.
A medical survey, "Cancer, Infant Mortality and Birth Sex Ratio in Fallujah, Iraq 2005–2009" published in July 2010, states that the "Increase in cancer and birth defects…are alarmingly high" and that infant mortality 2009/2010 has reached 13.6%. The group compares the dramatic increase, five years after the actual war 2004, or exposure, with the lymphoma Italian peacekeepers[130]
. Rezultate vidimo tako što dramatičan porast malignih oboljenja jednostavno ne može da se zaustavi, sve je zatrovano - vazduh, voda, zemlja i stanje će biti samo još gore s' obzirom na to koliko je vreme poluraspada osiromašenog uranijuma. 
