Original sentence: A report written by an Irish petro-chemical engineer stated that in Iraq, death rates per 1000 Iraqi children under 5 years of age increased from 2.3 in 1989 to 16.6 in 1993.In March, 2005, The Medical Association for Prevention of War (MAPW) wrote to Australian Defence Minister Robert Hill advising him against deploying Australian troops to the Al Muthanna province in southern Iraq, arguing that they could be at risk of contracting cancer or conceiving deformed children, and stating that "congenital deformities of types virtually never seen in other circumstances are occurring in newborns in Iraq in areas where depleted uranium is present.Those who claim there are no proven effects point to the lack of confirmed medical evidence suppurting the link, while those who believe there are effects point to medical statistics and investigations which they claim have been "swept under the carpet".Those with retained metal fragments have shown higher than normal levels of uranium in their urine since monitoring began in 1993
Edited sentence: A report written by an Irish petro-chemical engineer stated that in Iraq death rates per 1000 Iraqi children under 5 years of age increased from 2.3 in 1989 to 16.6 in 1993.In March, 2005, as part of a growing alarm among the international medical community over DU's possible effects on human health, The Medical Association for Prevention of War (MAPW) wrote to Australian Defence Minister Robert Hill advising him against deploying Australian troops to the Al Muthanna province in southern Iraq, arguing that they could be at risk of contracting cancer or conceiving deformed children, and stating that "congenital deformities of types virtually never seen in other circumstances are occurring in newborns in Iraq in areas where depleted uranium is present.Those who claim there are no proven effects point to lack of confirmed agreed reports, those who believe there are effects point to medical statistics and investigations which they claim have been "swept under the carpet".Those with retained metal fragments have shown higher than normal levels of uranium in their urine since monitoring began in