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Iraq Gas Flaring Tied to Cancer Surge
Ali Hussein Jaloud, an Iraqi man barely in his 20s, died April 21 of leukemia, a disease Ali and his family attributed to the pollution from the oil production and constant gas flares that surround their community in the southern Iraqi town of Rumaila, about 50 kilometers from the port city of Basra.
THIS IS NOT FROM FLARED GAS, the Gas is burnet at its Immission point, it could be from other factors