In a rare and strange case, the village of “Al-Keef” in Kirkuk Governorate (northern Iraq) suffers from the birth of many of its children, males and females, without hair for years, without knowing the reason.
The condition of baldness appears on children since their birth, and this is what prompted many of its young men to refrain from marriage during the past years; Fearing the birth of children without hair, after the phenomenon began to increase remarkably and rapidly during the last two decades.
Local residents believe that the contamination of the drinking water in the village is behind this. But a resident of the village confirmed to Al Jazeera Net that the first cases of the disease appeared in the eighties of the last century, and it is likely that the cause was mainly genetic, and not because of the contamination of drinking water.