The Hanford Sh!thole?... it's in Benton county... with Yakima county to the west and Franklin county to the east... what a coincidence...

Washington State Health Officials Stumped by High Rate of Birth Defects

A high rate of birth defects has confounded Washington health officials, who have been unable to identify a cause.

A report released Tuesday by the Washington State Department of Health said that, since 2010, the neighboring counties of Yakima, Benton and Franklin have an unusually high number pregnancies affected by the birth defect anencephaly, which results in a newborns' brains being severely underdeveloped.
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