This story is a repetition of what happened in Basrah in 1991 after the gulf war, both times it was totally ignored because lives of poor people are not important to news organization and also because of the access to highly influential officials who may deny the news agencies the access to them if they did so.

I wonder how can such issues be ignored when all the victims are kids who their only problem is that they were born in the wrong place at the wrong time

Source: BBC

Six years after the intense fighting began in the Iraqi town of Fallujah between US forces and Sunni insurgents, there is a disturbingly large number of cases of birth defects in the town.
Fallujah is less than 40 miles (65km) from Baghdad, but it can still be dangerous to get to.
As a result, there has been no authoritative medical investigation, certainly by any Western team, into the allegations that the weapons used by the Americans are still causing serious problems.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8548961.stm