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Shoalwater tribe sounds
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alarm over fetal deaths
Shoalwater tribe
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fetal deaths
13 pregnancies in 2 years; 1 baby
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Monday, February 22, 1999
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By PAUL SHUKOVSKY
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SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
ABOUT THE P-I
State officials,
TOKELAND -- Something is killing the future
lawmakers make their
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of the tiny Shoalwater Bay Tribe. A generation
case for raises
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is being wiped out in the womb, and nobody
400 protest U.S.
knows why.
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Of 13 pregnancies in 1997
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denied MS treatment
and 1998, only one baby is
alive today. It is a statistic SO
Northwest briefing
startling that last month, a
team of investigators from
Getting There: Ramps
the national Centers for
to nowhere might yet
Disease Control and
go
Prevention in Atlanta
Bills before the state
descended on this southwest
Legislature
Washington reservation,
where the Tokeland
Peninsula points into the
Among the southwest
Pacific.
Washington tribe, 10 of
19 pregnancies from
1988 through 1992
Part of the team's mission is
ended in miscarriage,
ectopic pregnancy,
to determine whether the
stillbirth or the death of
the baby within a year
miscarriages and other
of birth.
complications of pregnancy
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are limited to the reservation or also involve
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non-Indian residents of the region.
It's a recurrence of a scourge that tribal
members thought was behind them. In 1992,
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Did your hes know
the tribe hit the panic button when it realized
that 10 of 19 pregnancies since 1988 had ended
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in miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth or
the death of the baby within a year of birth.
Although scientists and physicians led by the
line we're responding-
federal Indian Health Service never pinpointed
a cause, people set aside their concerns when
any other ideas?
four apparently healthy babies were born from
1993 through 1996.
Now the nightmare is back.
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