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With Russian doctor-scientists becoming alarmed in 2005 about the rising rates of autism in newborns, this report further details, they began to document how nitrogen contaminated drinking water was making it especially dangerous for infants—as it interferes with the necessary transformation of methemoglobin into hemoglobin, thus decreasing the blood's ability to carry oxygen and causing methemoglobinemia, or “blue baby syndrome”—with even greater concerns being raised due to a scientific report issued, also in 2005, by Doctor’s Işιk Görker and Ümran Tüzün from Istanbul University titled “Autistic-Like Findings Associated With A Urea Cycle Disorder In A 4-Year-Old Girl”—and wherein a firm link was established between high blood nitrogen levels in children and autism.